Entry details for q = 191 = 19, g = 5
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Lower bound Nmin = 55

Submitted by Everett Howe
Date 01-07-2022
Reference Not available
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A search through the genus-5 double covers of genus-2 curves yielded the following example with 55 points:

y^2 = x^5 + 3*x^3 + x^2 + 1
z^2 = y + x^4 + 5*x^3 + 2*x^2 + 8*x + 5
Tags Analysis and enumeration, Explicit curves

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Upper bound Nmax = 58

Submitted by Everett Howe
Date 06-16-2016
Reference Karl-Otto Stöhr, José Felipe Voloch
Weierstrass points and curves over finite fields
Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) Vol. 52, No. 1 (1986) 1–19
Comments
Proposition 3.1
Tags Stöhr-Voloch bound

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