Speaker: 

Nick Alexander

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

We construct explicit genus 2 hyperelliptic curves whose Jacobian varieties have complex multiplication and are defined over an explicit algebraic number field. For these Jacobians, we give a formula for the number of points on their reductions modulo primes of good reduction. The construction and results can be viewed as a dimension 2 generalization of results of H. Stark. These formulas have application to cryptography and the CM method in dimension 2.