2000/05/14 by Noam D. Elkies, Elkies, Noam D. · 1 citation
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10 pages. For mini-symposium on "curves over finite fields and codes" at the 3rd European Congress in Barcelona 7/2000 Revised to correct minor typographical and grammatical errors
openalex publication_date 2000/05/14 · arxiv created 2000/05/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We give explicit equations for the simplest towers of Drinfeld modular curves over any finite field, and observe that they coincide with the asymptotically optimal towers of curves constructed by Garcia and Stichtenoth.