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A quasi quadratic time algorithm for hyperelliptic curve point counting. (English) Zbl 1166.11021
Summary: We describe an algorithm to compute the cardinality of Jacobians of ordinary hyperelliptic curves of small genus over finite fields $$\mathcal F_{2^n}$$ with cost $$O(n^{2+o(1)})$$. This algorithm is derived from ideas due to Mestre. More precisely, we state the mathematical background behind Mestre’s algorithm and develop from it a variant with quasi-quadratic time complexity. Among others, we present an algorithm to find roots of a system of generalized Artin-Schreier equations and give results that we obtain with an efficient implementation. Especially, we were able to obtain the cardinality of curves of genus one, two or three in finite fields of huge size.

##### MSC:
 11G20 Curves over finite and local fields 11S40 Zeta functions and $$L$$-functions 14G50 Applications to coding theory and cryptography of arithmetic geometry
gmp; Magma; ZEN
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