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Lower bound Nmin = 2696

Submitted by C. Ritzenthaler
Date 11/15/2009
Reference T. Ibukiyama
ON RATIONAL POINTS OF CURVES OF GENUS 3 OVER FINITE FIELDS
Tόhoku Math. J. 45 (1993), 311-329
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This number is reached by a supersingular hyperelliptic curve of genus 3. This is proved using the class number formula of ternary quaternion Hermitian forms by Hashimoto.
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Explicit example     
Everett Howe
05/20/2010 23:47
One such hyperelliptic curve is n*y^2 = x^7 - x, where n is any element of F_{7^4} that is not a square.
Upper bound Nmax = 2696

Submitted by Everett Howe
Date 06/10/2010
Reference Jean-Pierre Serre
Sur le nombre de points rationnels d'une courbe algébrique sur un corps fini
C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 296 (1983), 397–402. (= Œuvres III, No. 128, 658–663).
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The Hasse-Weil-Serre bound
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