Representation of non-special curves of genus 5 as plane sextic curves and its application to finding curves with many rational points

Abstract

In algebraic geometry, it is important to provide effective parametrizations for families of curves, both in theory and in practice. In this paper, we present such an effective parametrization for the moduli of genus-5 curves that are neither hyperelliptic nor trigonal. Subsequently, we construct an algorithm for a complete enumeration of non-special genus-5 curves having more rational points than a specified bound, where “non-special curve” means that the curve is non-hyperelliptic and non-trigonal with mild singularities of the associated sextic model that we propose. As a practical application, we implement this algorithm using the computer algebra system MAGMA, specifically for curves over the prime field of characteristic 3.