Heuristic conjecture for the limiting distribution of a-numbers of hyperelliptic curves in characteristic three

From papers

Continue with p=3p=3, let F=Fq(X)F={{\mathbb{F}_q}}(X), and for ϵ{1,2}\epsilon\in\{1,2\} let μϵ,g(a)\mu'_{\epsilon,g}(a) denote the proportion of genus-gg hyperelliptic curves in the corresponding parity class whose aa-number is aa, where aZ0a\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}. Heuristic conjecture. For ϵ{1,2}\epsilon\in\{1,2\} and aZ0a\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0},

limgμϵ,g(a)={1q1if a=0,\q2a+1(1q2)if a>0.\lim_{g\to\infty}\mu'_{\epsilon,g}(a)=\begin{cases}1-q^{-1}&\text{if }a=0,\q^{-2a+1}(1-q^{-2})&\text{if }a>0. \end{cases}

This conjecture proposes that the asymptotic aa-number distribution agrees with the distribution obtained from random two-dimensional subspaces of fixed height. The preceding theorem establishes the corresponding distribution for the heuristic model, while the asserted connection with hyperelliptic curves remains unproved.

Progress summary

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Derek Garton, Jeffrey Lin Thunder and Colin Weir, “The distribution of a-numbers of hyperelliptic curves in characteristic three”, arXiv:2403.00120 (2024).

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.