TY - JOUR
T1 - Statistics of the Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves over finite fields
AU - Xiong, Maosheng
AU - Zaharescu, Alexandru
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Let C be a smooth projective curve of genus g ≥ 1 over a finite field Fq of cardinality q. Denote by # JC the size of the Jacobian of C over Fq. We first obtain an estimate on # JC when Fq(C)/Fq(X) is a geometric Galois extension, which improves a general result of Shparlinski [19]. Then we study the behavior of the quantity #JC as C varies over a large family of hyperelliptic curves of genus g. When g is fixed and q → ∞, its limiting distribution is given by the powerful theorem of Katz and Sarnak in terms of the trace of a random matrix. When q is fixed and the genus g → ∞, we also find explicitly the limiting distribution and show that the result is consistent with that of Katz and Sarnak when both q, g → ∞.
AB - Let C be a smooth projective curve of genus g ≥ 1 over a finite field Fq of cardinality q. Denote by # JC the size of the Jacobian of C over Fq. We first obtain an estimate on # JC when Fq(C)/Fq(X) is a geometric Galois extension, which improves a general result of Shparlinski [19]. Then we study the behavior of the quantity #JC as C varies over a large family of hyperelliptic curves of genus g. When g is fixed and q → ∞, its limiting distribution is given by the powerful theorem of Katz and Sarnak in terms of the trace of a random matrix. When q is fixed and the genus g → ∞, we also find explicitly the limiting distribution and show that the result is consistent with that of Katz and Sarnak when both q, g → ∞.
KW - Class number
KW - Gaussian distribution
KW - Jacobian
KW - Zeta functions of curves
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U2 - 10.4310/MRL.2012.v19.n2.a1
DO - 10.4310/MRL.2012.v19.n2.a1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866727042
SN - 1073-2780
VL - 19
SP - 255
EP - 272
JO - Mathematical Research Letters
JF - Mathematical Research Letters
IS - 2
ER -