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Publications and source records attributed to Fernando Torres.
We prove the following result which was conjectured by Stichtenoth and Xing: let $g$ be the genus of a projective, irreducible non-singular curve over the finite field $\Bbb F_{q^2}$ and whose number of $\Bbb F_{q^2}$-rational points attains the Hasse-Weil bound; then either $4g\le (q-1)^2$ or $2g=(q-1)q$.
We study upper bounds on the order of automorphisms of non-singular curves $X$ satisfying at least one of the following hypothesis: 1) $X$ is an $m$-sheeted covering of exactly one non-singular curve of genus $γ$, where $m$ is prime; 2) the center of the group of automorphisms of $X$ is non-trivial.
A curve $X$ is said to be of type $(N,γ)$ if it is an $N$--sheeted covering of a curve of genus $γ$ with at least one totally ramified point. A numerical semigroup $H$ is said to be of type $(N,γ)$ if it has $γ$ positive multiples of $N$ in $[N,2Nγ]$ such that its $γ^{th}$ element is $2Nγ$ and $(2γ+1)N \in H$. If the genus of $X$ is large enough and $N$ is prime, $X$ is of type $(N,γ)$ if and only if there is a point $P \in X$ such that the Weierstrass semigroup at $P$ is of type $(N,γ)$ (this generalizes the case of double coverings of curves). Using the proof of this result and the Buchweitz's semigroup, we can construct numerical semigroups that cannot be realized as Weierstrass semigroups although they might satisfy Buchweitz's criterion.