Fluctuations in the number of points on smooth plane curves over finite fields

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2010.05.009MaRDI QIDQ710489zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alina Bucur, Chantal David, Brooke Feigon, Matilde Lalín

Publication date 19 October 2010

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4761

zbMATH Keywords

plane curvesfinite fieldsnumber of points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Probabilistic theory: distribution modulo (1); metric theory of algorithms (11K99)

Abstract: In this note, we study the fluctuations in the number of points of smooth projective plane curves over finite fields $mathbb{F}_q$ as $q$ is fixed and the genus varies. More precisely, we show that these fluctuations are predicted by a natural probabilistic model, in which the points of the projective plane impose independent conditions on the curve. The main tool we use is a geometric sieving process introduced by Poonen.

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