A survey on recursive towers and Ihara's constant

arXiv2203.03310MaRDI QIDQ6393003FDOQ6393003

Authors: Peter Beelen 

Publication date: 7 March 2022

Abstract: Since Serre gave his famous Harvard lectures in 1985 on various aspects of the theory of algebraic curves defined over a finite field, there have been many developments. In this survey article, an overview will be given on the developments concerning the quantity $A(q)$, known as Ihara's constant. The main focus will be on explicit techniques and in particular recursively defined towers of function fields over a finite field, which have given good lower bounds for Ihara's constant in the past.

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25)

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