Asymptotically good towers of global function fields and bounds for the Ihara function

This is a thesis in Algebraic Number Theory, concerned with the study of bounds for the Ihara function, an asymptotic measure comparing the number of rational places of a global function field with the genus of that field. The exact behavior of this function is unknown; however, some bounds on its v...

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Main Author: Hall-Seelig, Laura
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2009
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3372263