Improvements to Jacobian Arithmetic in Global Function Fields

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Main Authors: Macri, Vincent, Jacobson Jr., Michael, Scheidler, Renate
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Published: 2026
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author Macri, Vincent
Jacobson Jr., Michael
Scheidler, Renate
author_facet Macri, Vincent
Jacobson Jr., Michael
Scheidler, Renate
contents We present two improvements to arithmetic in the Jacobian of global function fields based on the approach of Hess. The first reduces the number of expensive reduction steps by optimizing for typical inputs rather than worst-case behavior, assuming the function field contains a degree-one place. The second introduces a memory-time trade-off that speeds up computations by caching frequently used intermediate results. Our asymptotic analysis and empirical experiments show that our improved algorithms are significantly faster in practice than previously published methods. To the best of our knowledge, our publicly-available software implementation of Jacobian arithmetic is the first to support unique representatives of divisor classes.
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spellingShingle Improvements to Jacobian Arithmetic in Global Function Fields
Macri, Vincent
Jacobson Jr., Michael
Scheidler, Renate
Number Theory
We present two improvements to arithmetic in the Jacobian of global function fields based on the approach of Hess. The first reduces the number of expensive reduction steps by optimizing for typical inputs rather than worst-case behavior, assuming the function field contains a degree-one place. The second introduces a memory-time trade-off that speeds up computations by caching frequently used intermediate results. Our asymptotic analysis and empirical experiments show that our improved algorithms are significantly faster in practice than previously published methods. To the best of our knowledge, our publicly-available software implementation of Jacobian arithmetic is the first to support unique representatives of divisor classes.
title Improvements to Jacobian Arithmetic in Global Function Fields
topic Number Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15323