Algebraic Curves over Finite Fields
Subtitle: Error-Correcting Codes and Exponential Sums (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521459013
Subjects: Algebraic geometry; Number theory; Science/Mathematics; Mathematics; Algebra - General; Geometry - Algebraic; Algebraic fields; Mathematics / Applied; Mathematics / Geometry / Algebraic; Mathematics-Algebra - General
First sentence: In applications to arithmetical questions and coding theory, the basic field of constants will be the finite field k = F of characteristic p; in particular this will be apparent in the proof of the Riemann-Roch theorem as well as in the study of the zeta function of a curve.