Distribution of the traces of Frobenius on elliptic curves over function fields
Abstract
Let C be a smooth irreducible projective curve defined over a finite field of q elements of characteristic p>3 and its function field and the minimal regular model of . For each denote . The elliptic curve has good reduction at if and only if is an elliptic curve defined over the residue field of . This field is a finite extension of of degree . Let t(\mathcal{E}_P)=q^{\deg(P)}+1-#\mathcal{E}_P(\kappa_P) be the trace of Frobenius at P. By Hasse-Weil's theorem (cf. [10, Chapter V, Theorem 2.4]), is the sum of the inverses of the zeros of the zeta function of . In particular, . Let be the set of points of C at which has good reduction and the subset of -rational points of . We discuss the following question. Let and t be integers and suppose . Let \pi(k,t)=#\{P\in C_0(\mathbb{F}_{q^k}) | t(\mathcal{E}_P)=t\}. How big is ?
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@article{arxiv.math/0111105,
title = {Distribution of the traces of Frobenius on elliptic curves over function fields},
author = {Amilcar Pacheco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0111105},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, replaced version, minor correction on the degree of the j-map