{ "id": "math/0111006", "version": "v1", "published": "2001-11-01T07:54:35.000Z", "updated": "2001-11-01T07:54:35.000Z", "title": "Appendix to a paper of Maisner and Nart", "authors": [ "Everett W. Howe" ], "comment": "2 pages, Latex. To appear in Experiment. Math", "journal": "Experiment. Math. 11 (2002) 321--337.", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We prove that there is no genus-2 curve over F_q whose Jacobian has characteristic polynomial of Frobenius equal to x^4 + (1 - 2q) x^2 + q^2. Maisner and Nart had observed (by direct computation) that this was true for all q less than 65.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2001-11-01T07:54:35.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11G20", "14G15", "11G10", "14H25" ], "keywords": [ "characteristic polynomial", "frobenius equal", "direct computation" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 2, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 572503, "adsabs": "2001math.....11006H" } } }