Yağmur Çakıroğlu

Alix Barraud, Yağmur Çakıroğlu, Bianca Gouthier et al.

The aim of this survey is to provide the reader with an essential and accessible introduction to the theory of Weierstrass semigroups, in the context of the theory developed by K.-O. Stöhr and J.F. Voloch. Furthermore, we discuss an application of Stöhr-Voloch theory in coding theory, namely the Feng-Rao bound (also known as the order bound) for the dual minimum distance of one-point algebraic geometry codes from a curve, which relies on the knowledge of certain Weierstrass semigroups of the curve.

Yağmur Çakıroğlu, Oğuz Yayla, Emrah Sercan Yılmaz

We present the formula for the number of monic irreducible polynomials of degree $n$ over the finite field $\mathbb F_q$ where the coefficients of $x^{n-1}$ and $x$ vanish for $n\ge3$. In particular, we give a relation between rational points of algebraic curves over finite fields and the number of elements $a\in\mathbb F_{q^n}$ for which Trace$(a)=0$ and Trace$(a^{-1})=0$. Besides, we apply the formula to give an upper bound on the number of distinct constructions of a family of sequences with good family complexity and cross-correlation measure.