Algebraic Function Fields and Codes
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 19, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780387564890
First sentence: In this chapter we introduce the basic definitions and results of the theory of algebraic function fields: valuations, places, divisors, the genus of a function field, adeles, Weil differentials and the Riemann-Roch theorem.