The $L$-polynomials of van der Geer--van der Vlugt curves in characteristic $2$

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Main Authors: Ito, Tetsushi, Takeuchi, Daichi, Tsushima, Takahiro
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Published: 2025
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author Ito, Tetsushi
Takeuchi, Daichi
Tsushima, Takahiro
author_facet Ito, Tetsushi
Takeuchi, Daichi
Tsushima, Takahiro
contents The van der Geer--van der Vlugt curves form a class of Artin--Schreier coverings of the projective line over finite fields. We provide an explicit formula for their $L$-polynomials in characteristic $2$, expressed in terms of characters of maximal abelian subgroups of associated Heisenberg groups. For this purpose, we develop new methods specific to characteristic $2$ that exploit the structure of the Heisenberg groups and the geometry of Lang torsors for $W_2$. As an application, we construct examples of curves in this family attaining the Hasse--Weil bound.
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spellingShingle The $L$-polynomials of van der Geer--van der Vlugt curves in characteristic $2$
Ito, Tetsushi
Takeuchi, Daichi
Tsushima, Takahiro
Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
The van der Geer--van der Vlugt curves form a class of Artin--Schreier coverings of the projective line over finite fields. We provide an explicit formula for their $L$-polynomials in characteristic $2$, expressed in terms of characters of maximal abelian subgroups of associated Heisenberg groups. For this purpose, we develop new methods specific to characteristic $2$ that exploit the structure of the Heisenberg groups and the geometry of Lang torsors for $W_2$. As an application, we construct examples of curves in this family attaining the Hasse--Weil bound.
title The $L$-polynomials of van der Geer--van der Vlugt curves in characteristic $2$
topic Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22036