Appendix to a paper of Maisner and Nart
Abstract
We prove that there is no genus-2 curve over Fq whose Jacobian has characteristic polynomial of Frobenius equal to x4 + (1 - 2q) x2 + q2. Maisner and Nart had observed (by direct computation) that this was true for all q less than 65.
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