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Weierstrass points of superelliptic curves

Caleb Shor, Tanush Shaska

I-AIMS paper 2015-2 · Published in NATO Sci. Peace Secur. Ser. D Inf. Commun. Secur. 41 (2015), 15–46 · 2015

In this lecture we give a brief introduction to Weierstrass points of curves and computational aspects of q-Weierstrass points on superelliptic curves.

MSC classes: Primary 11G30; Secondary 14H55, 14H45, 14H30

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