Shushi Harashita — Page 2

arXiv2017

Enumerating superspecial curves of genus $4$ over prime fields

In this paper we enumerate nonhyperelliptic superspecial curves of genus $4$ over prime fields of characteristic $p\le 11$. Our algorithm works for nonhyperelliptic curves over an arbitrary finite field in characteristic $p \ge 5$. We execute the algorithm for prime fields of $p\le 11$ with our implementation on a computer algebra system Magma. Thanks to the fact that the cardinality of $\mathbb{F}_{p^a}$-isomorphism classes of superspecial curves over $\mathbb{F}_{p^a}$ of a fixed genus depends only on the parity of $a$, this paper contributes to the odd-degree case for genus $4$, whereas our previous paper contributes to the even-degree case.

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arXiv2016

Superspecial curves of genus $4$ in small characteristic

This paper contains a complete study of superspecial curves of genus $4$ in characteristic $p\le 7$. We prove that there does not exist a superspecial curve of genus $4$ in characteristic $7$. This is a negative answer to the genus $4$ case of the problem proposed by Ekedahl [9] in 1987. This implies the non-existence of maximal curve of genus $4$ over $\mathbb{F}_{49}$, which updates the table at {\tt manypoints.org}. We give an algorithm to enumerate superspecial nonhyperelliptic curves in arbitrary $p \ge 5$, and for $p\le 7$ we excute it with our implementation on a computer algebra system Magma. Our result in $p=5$ re-proves the uniqueness of maximal curves of genus $4$ over $\mathbb{F}_{25}$, see [11] for the original theoretical proof. In Appendix, we present a general method determining Hasse-Witt matrices of curves which are complete intersections.

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