Computing Riemann---Roch spaces in algebraic function fields and related topics

  • Authors:
  • F. Hess

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Bristol, Woodland Road

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We develop a simple and efficient algorithm to compute Riemann---Roch spaces of divisors in general algebraic function fields which does not use the Brill-Noether method of adjoints or any series expansions. The basic idea also leads to an elementary proof of the Riemann-Roch theorem. We describe the connection to the geometry of numbers of algebraic function fields and develop a notion and algorithm for divisor reduction. An important application is to compute in the divisor class group of an algebraic function field.