Computing superspecial hyperelliptic curves of genus 4 with automorphism group properly containing the Klein 4-group

Abstract

In algebraic geometry, enumerating or finding superspecial curves in positive characteristic $p$ is important both in theory and in computation. In this paper, we propose feasible algorithms to enumerate or find superspecial hyperelliptic curves of genus $4$ with automorphism group properly containing the Klein $4$-group. Executing the algorithms on Magma, we succeeded in enumerating such superspecial curves for every $p$ with $19 \leq p < 500$, and in finding a single one for every $p$ with $19 \leq p < 7000$.