Appendix to a paper of Maisner and Nart
Number Theory
2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We prove that there is no genus-2 curve over F_q whose Jacobian has characteristic polynomial of Frobenius equal to x^4 + (1 - 2q) x^2 + q^2. Maisner and Nart had observed (by direct computation) that this was true for all q less than 65.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0111006,
title = {Appendix to a paper of Maisner and Nart},
author = {Everett W. Howe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0111006},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, Latex. To appear in Experiment. Math