Quickly constructing curves of genus 4 with many points

DOI10.1090/CONM/663/13353MaRDI QIDQ3187548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Everett W. Howe

Publication date 2 September 2016

Published in Frobenius Distributions: (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04478

zbMATH Keywords

defectJacobianrational points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Rational points (14G05) Zeta functions and related questions in algebraic geometry (e.g., Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) (14G10) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15)

Abstract: The "defect" of a curve over a finite field is the difference between the number of rational points on the curve and the Weil-Serre bound for the curve. We present a construction for producing genus-4 double covers of genus-2 curves over finite fields such that the defect of the double cover is not much more than the defect of the genus-2 curve. We give an algorithm that uses this construction to produce genus-4 curves with small defect. Heuristically, for all sufficiently large primes and for almost all prime powers q, the algorithm is expected to produce a genus-4 curve over F_q with defect at most 4 in time q^{3/4}, up to logarithmic factors. As part of the analysis of the algorithm, we present a reinterpretation of results of Hayashida on the number of genus-2 curves whose Jacobians are isomorphic to the square of a given elliptic curve with complex multiplication by a maximal order. We show that a category of principal polarizations on the square of such an elliptic curve is equivalent to a category of right ideals in a certain quaternion order.

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