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Greatest common divisors of u - 1 , v - 1 in positive characteristic and rational points on curves over finite fields

Pietro Corvaja, Umberto Zannier (2013)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

In our previous work we proved a bound for the g c d ( u 1 , v 1 ) , for S -units u , v of a function field in characteristic zero. This generalized an analogous bound holding over number fields, proved in [3]. As pointed out by Silverman, the exact analogue does not work for function fields in positive characteristic. In the present work, we investigate possible extensions in that direction; it turns out that under suitable assumptions some of the results still hold. For instance we prove Theorems 2 and 3 below, from...

Hasse-Witt matrices and Kummer extension

Francis J. Sullivan (1988)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

A simple calculation of the Hasse-Witt matrix is used to give examples of curves which are Kummer coverings of the projective line and which have easily determined p-rank. A family of curve carrying non-classical vector bundles of rank 2 is also given.

Improved upper bounds for the number of points on curves over finite fields

Everett W. Howe, Kristin E. Lauter (2003)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We give new arguments that improve the known upper bounds on the maximal number N q ( g ) of rational points of a curve of genus g over a finite field 𝔽 q , for a number of pairs ( q , g ) . Given a pair ( q , g ) and an integer N , we determine the possible zeta functions of genus- g curves over 𝔽 q with N points, and then deduce properties of the curves from their zeta functions. In many cases we can show that a genus- g curve over 𝔽 q with N points must have a low-degree map to another curve over 𝔽 q , and often this is enough to...

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