Explicit construction of a plane sextic model for genus-five Howe curves, I

Abstract

In the past several years, Howe curves have been studied actively in the field of algebraic curves over fields of positive characteristic. Here, a Howe curve is defined as the desingularization of the fiber product over a projective line of two hyperelliptic curves. In this paper, we construct an explicit plane sextic model for non-hyperelliptic Howe curves of genus five. We also determine singularities of our sextic model. Some possible applications such as finding curves over finite fields of special properties are also described.