11 research outputs found
Toric surface codes and Minkowski length of polygons
In this paper we prove new lower bounds for the minimum distance of a toric
surface code defined by a convex lattice polygon P. The bounds involve a
geometric invariant L(P), called the full Minkowski length of P which can be
easily computed for any given P.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figure
Asymptotically maximal families of hypersurfaces in toric varieties
A real algebraic variety is maximal (with respect to the Smith-Thom
inequality) if the sum of the Betti numbers (with coefficients)
of the real part of the variety is equal to the sum of Betti numbers of its
complex part. We prove that there exist polytopes that are not Newton polytopes
of any maximal hypersurface in the corresponding toric variety. On the other
hand we show that for any polytope there are families of hypersurfaces
with the Newton polytopes that are
asymptotically maximal when tends to infinity. We also show that
these results generalize to complete intersections.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figur
Curves of every genus with many points, I: Abelian and toric families
Let N_q(g) denote the maximal number of F_q-rational points on any curve of
genus g over the finite field F_q. Ihara (for square q) and Serre (for general
q) proved that limsup_{g-->infinity} N_q(g)/g > 0 for any fixed q. In their
proofs they constructed curves with many points in infinitely many genera;
however, their sequences of genera are somewhat sparse. In this paper, we prove
that lim_{g-->infinity} N_q(g) = infinity. More precisely, we use abelian
covers of P^1 to prove that liminf_{g-->infinity} N_q(g)/(g/log g) > 0, and we
use curves on toric surfaces to prove that liminf_{g-->infty} N_q(g)/g^{1/3} >
0; we also show that these results are the best possible that can be proved
with these families of curves.Comment: LaTeX, 20 page