Genus 3 curves with many involutions and application to maximal curves in characteristic 2

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2009-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0546v1

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Number Theory

18 pages

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Let k=F_q be a finite field of characteristic 2. A genus 3 curve C/k has many involutions if the group of k-automorphisms admits a C_2\times C_2 subgroup H (not containing the hyperelliptic involution if C is hyperelliptic). Then C is an Artin-Schreier cover of the three elliptic curves obtained as the quotient of C by the nontrivial involutions of H, and the Jacobian of C is k-isogenous to the product of these three elliptic curves. In this paper we exhibit explicit models for genus 3 curves with many involutions, and we compute explicit equations for the elliptic quotients. We then characterize when a triple (E_1,E_2,E_3) of elliptic curves admits an Artin-Schreier cover by a genus 3 curve, and we apply this result to the construction of maximal curves. As a consequence, when q is nonsquare and m=\lfloor 2 sqrt(q) \rfloor = 1,5,7 mod 8, we obtain that N_q(3)=1+q+3m. We also show that this occurs for an infinite number of values of q nonsquare.

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