New methods for bounding the number of points on curves over finite fields

Details New methods for bounding the number of points on curves over finite fields New methods for bounding the number of points on curves over finite fields

2012-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/1202.6308v2

Mathematics

Number Theory

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We provide new upper bounds on N_q(g), the maximum number of rational points on a smooth absolutely irreducible genus-g curve over F_q, for many values of q and g. Among other results, we find that N_4(7) = 21 and N_8(5) = 29, and we show that a genus-12 curve over F_2 having 15 rational points must have characteristic polynomial of Frobenius equal to one of three explicitly given possibilities. We also provide sharp upper bounds for the lengths of the shortest vectors in Hermitian lattices of small rank and determinant over the maximal orders of small imaginary quadratic fields of class number 1. Some of our intermediate results can be interpreted in terms of Mordell-Weil lattices of constant elliptic curves over one-dimensional function fields over finite fields. Using the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for such elliptic curves, we deduce lower bounds on the orders of certain Shafarevich-Tate groups.

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