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Genus-five hyperelliptic or trigonal curves with many rational points in characteristic three

Algebraic Geometry 2022-04-15 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

The number N9(5)N_9(5), the maximal number of F9\mathbb{F}_9-rational points on curves over F9\mathbb{F}_9 of genus 55 is unknown, but it is known that 32N9(5)3532 \le N_9(5)\le 35. In this paper, we enumerate hyperelliptic curves and trigonal curves over F3\mathbb{F}_3 which have many F9\mathbb{F}_9-rational points (and F3\mathbb{F}_3-rational points), especially the maximal number of F9\mathbb{F}_9-rational points of those curves is 3030. Kudo-Harashita studied the nonhyperelliptic and nontrigonal case,where they found a new example of curves (over F3\mathbb{F}_3) of genus five which attains 3232 and proved that there is no example attaining more than 3232, among sextic plane curves with mild singularities. We conclude from the main results in this paper that we need to search sextic models (i.e., nonhyperelliptic and nontrigonal) with bad singularities, in order to find a genus-five curve over F3\mathbb{F}_3 with at least 3333 F9\mathbb{F}_9-rational points.

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@article{arxiv.2204.06805,
  title  = {Genus-five hyperelliptic or trigonal curves with many rational points in characteristic three},
  author = {Momonari Kudo and Shushi Harashita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.06805},
  year   = {2022}
}
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