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$A(2)$ and
$A(3)$Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2013
Let
$ \mathcal{X} $ be a curve over
${ \mathbb{F} }_{q} $ and let
$N( \mathcal{X} )$,
$g( \mathcal{X} )$ be its number of rational points and genus respectively. The Ihara constant
$A(q)$ is defined by
$A(q)= {\mathrm{lim~sup} }_{g( \mathcal{X} )\rightarrow \infty } N( \mathcal{X} )/ g( \mathcal{X} )$. In this paper, we employ a variant of Serre’s class field tower method to obtain an improvement of the best known lower bounds on
$A(2)$ and
$A(3)$.