(1) Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123 Perugia, Italy
Abstract:
The number of Fq
-rational points of a plane non-singular algebraic curve
defined over a finite field Fq
is computed, provided that the generic point of
is not an inflexion and that
is Frobenius non-classical with respect to conics.
Received: 18 March 2003