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Cooley, Jenny (2014) Cubic surfaces over finite fields. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

It is well-known that the set of rational points on an elliptic curve forms an abelian group. When the curve is given as a plane cubic in Weierstrass form the group operation is defined via tangent and secant operations. Let S be a smooth cubic surface over a field K. Again one can define tangent and secant operations on S. These do not give S(K) a group structure, but one can still ask for the size of a minimal generating set.

In Chapter 2 of the thesis I show that if S is a smooth cubic surface over a field K with at least 4 elements, and if S contains a skew pair of lines defined over K, then any non-Eckardt K-point on either line generates S(K). This strengthens a result of Siksek [20].

In Chapter 3, I show that if S is a smooth cubic surface over a finite field K = Fq with at least 8 elements, and if S contains at least one K-line, then there is some point P > S(K) that generates S(K).

In Chapter 4, I consider cubic surfaces S over finite fields K = Fq that contain no K-lines. I find a lower bound for the proportion of points generated when starting with a non-Eckardt point P > S(K) and show that this lower bound tends to 1/6 as q tends to infinity.

In Chapter 5, I define c-invariants of cubic surfaces over a finite field K = Fq with respect to a given K-line contained in S, give several results regarding these c-invariants and relate them to the number of points SS(K)S.

In Chapter 6, I consider the problem of enumerating cubic surfaces over a finite field, K = Fq, with a given point, P > S(K), up to an explicit equivalence relation.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Surfaces, Cubic, Finite fields (Algebra)
Official Date: June 2014
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June 2014Submitted
Institution: University of Warwick
Theses Department: Mathematics Institute
Thesis Type: PhD
Publication Status: Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: Siksek, Samir
Extent: vii, 95 leaves
Language: eng

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