An explicit tower of function fields over cubic finite fields and Zink's lower bound

Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik

Volumn , Issue 589, 2005, Pages 159-199

  Bezerra, Juscelino ^a,b   Garcia, Arnaldo ^a,b   Stichtenoth, Henning ^a,c  

^a Institute de Matemática Pura e Aplicada IMPA ^*

^b IMPA   (Brazil)

^c SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 29244480022     PISSN: 00754102     EISSN: 00754102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/crll.2005.2005.589.159     Document Type: Article

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