1. IMPA—, Estrada Dona Castorina 110, 22460-320, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL 2. Universit?t Duisburg—Essen, Campus Essen, FB Mathematik, 45117, Essen, GERMANY 3. Sabanci University MDBF, Orhanli, 34956, Tuzla/Istanbul, TURKEY
Abstract:
We present a maximal curve of genus 24 defined over with q = 27, that is not a Galois subcover of the Hermitian curve. *The author was partially supported by CNPq-Brazil (470193/03-4) and by PRONEX (CNPq-FAPERJ).