The Hasse-Witt invariant in some towers of function fields over finite fields

Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 567-582

  Bassa, A ^a   Beelen, P ^b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hasse Witt invariant; p rank; towers of function fields; Zink's bound

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149487161     PISSN: 16787544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00574-010-0026-8     Document Type: Article

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