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Lower bound Nmin = 22

Submitted by Everett Howe
Date 04-20-2020
Reference Everett W. Howe
The maximum number of points on a curve of genus eight over the field of four elements
J. Number Theory 220 (2021) 320–329
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An example is given by
y^2 + (x^3 + x + 1)y = x^6 + x^5 + x^4 + x^2
z^3 = (x+1)y + x^2

This is a degree-3 Kummer extension of the genus-2 curve defined by the first equation, ramified at 4 points.
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Upper bound Nmax = 24

Submitted by Everett Howe
Date 04-14-2010
Reference Jean-Pierre Serre
Rational points on curves over finite fields. With contributions by Everett Howe, Joseph Oesterlé and Christophe Ritzenthaler. Edited by Alp Bassa, Elisa Lorenzo García, Christophe Ritzenthaler and René Schoof
Documents Mathématiques 18, Société Mathématique de France, Paris, 2020
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The Oesterlé bound
Tags Oesterlé bound

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