scholarly journals Computing Zeta Functions of Hyperelliptic Curves over Finite Fields of Characteristic 2

Author(s):  
Frederik Vercauteren
2002 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 34-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan G. B. Lauder ◽  
Daqing Wan

AbstractThe authors present a practical polynomial-time algorithm for computing the zeta function of certain Artin–Schreier curves over finite fields. This yields a method for computing the order of the Jacobian of an elliptic curve in characteristic 2, and more generally, any hyperelliptic curve in characteristic 2 whose affine equation is of a particular form. The algorithm is based upon an efficient reduction method for the Dwork cohomology of one-variable exponential sums.


Author(s):  
Michael O. Rubinstein ◽  
Kaiyu Wu

Let q be an odd prime power, and denote the set of square-free monic polynomials D ( x )∈ F q [ x ] of degree d . Katz and Sarnak showed that the moments, over , of the zeta functions associated to the curves y 2 = D ( x ), evaluated at the central point, tend, as , to the moments of characteristic polynomials, evaluated at the central point, of matrices in USp (2⌊( d −1)/2⌋). Using techniques that were originally developed for studying moments of L -functions over number fields, Andrade and Keating conjectured an asymptotic formula for the moments for q fixed and . We provide theoretical and numerical evidence in favour of their conjecture. In some cases, we are able to work out exact formulae for the moments and use these to precisely determine the size of the remainder term in the predicted moments.


1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amilcar Pacheco

AbstractLet C be a complete irreducible nonsingular algebraic curve defined over a finite field k. Let G be a finite subgroup of the group of automorphisms Aut(C) of C. We prove that certain idempotent relations in the rational group ring Q[G] imply other relations between the zeta-functions of the quotient curves C/H, where H is a subgroup of G. In particular we generalize some results of Kani in the special case of curves over finite fields.


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