We obtain lower bounds for the asymptotic number of rational points of smooth algebraic curves over finite fields. To do this we construct infinite Hilbert class field towers with good parameters. In this way we improve bounds of Serre, Perret, and Niederreiter and Xing.
A simplified proof for the limit of a tower over a cubic finite field
โ Scribed by Alp Bassa; Henning Stichtenoth
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 247 KB
- Volume
- 123
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-314X
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โฆ Synopsis
Recently Bezerra, Garcia and Stichtenoth constructed an explicit tower F = (F n ) n 0 of function fields over a finite field F q 3 , whose limit ฮป(F ) = lim nโโ N(F n )/g(F n ) attains the Zink bound ฮป(F ) 2(q 2 -1)/(q + 2). Their proof is rather long and very technical. In this paper we replace the complex calculations in their work by structural arguments, thus giving a much simpler and shorter proof for the limit of the Bezerra, Garcia and Stichtenoth tower.
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