A tower with non-Galois steps which attains the Drinfeld-Vladut bound

Journal of Number Theory

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 142-154

  Bezerra, Juscelino ^a   Garcia, Arnaldo ^a  

^a IMPA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drinfeld Vladut bound; Finite fields; Genus; Rational places; Towers of function fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342578217     PISSN: 0022314X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnt.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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