The number of rational points of a class of superelliptic curves

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Abstract: In this paper, we study the number of mathbbFqn-rational points on the affine curve mathcalXd,a,b given by the equation y^d=ax ext{Tr}(x)+b, where extTr denote the trace function from mathbbFqn to mathbbFq and d is a positive integer. In particular, we present bounds for the number of mathbbFq-rational points on mathcalXd,a,b and, for the cases where d satisfies a natural condition, explicit formulas for the number of rational points are obtained. Particularly, a complete characterization is given for the case d=2. As a consequence of our results, we compute the number of elements alpha in mathbbFqn such that alpha and extTr(alpha) are quadratic residues in mathbbFqn.









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