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Lower bound Nmin = 32

Submitted by Karl Rökaeus
Date 02-22-2011
Reference Not available
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The hyperelliptic curve C of genus 2 given by
y^2=x^5-x^3+x
has class group isomorphic to Z/8*Z/8. The points \infty, (0,0), (4,3) and (4,2) on C map to (0,4), 0, (0,5) and (0,3) in the class group, hence to a subgroup of index 8. By class field theory, C has an unramified cover of degree 8 in which these points split completely. This cover therefore has genus 1+8*(2-1)=9 and at least 8*4=32 rational points (in fact exactly 32 since this was already known to be an upper bound).
Tags Methods from general class field theory

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Upper bound Nmax = 32

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. Here is a real Weil polynomial that we don't know how to eliminate: (x + 2)^5 * (x + 4)^4
Tags Oesterlé bound

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