I don't have the references at hand, but surely to compute the order
of the Jacobian of a curve over GF(p) it is enough to count the points
on the curve itself over GF(p) and GF(p^2)?

John Cremona

On Jan 13, 7:01 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Foad Khoshnam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In order to compute the order of the jacobian varieties of
> > hyperelliptic curves over finite fields
> > I need a function in Sage to choice a random point on jacobian group
> > of hyper elliptic curves.
> > Some line of my programming are as follow :
> > sage:  k.<x>=GF(p^a,'x');
> > sage:  f=x^7+93*x^6 + 64*x^5 + 2*x^4 + 65*x^3 +90* x^2 + 18*x + 10;
> > sage: C=HyperEllipticCurve(f)
> > sage: J=C.Jacobian()
>
> The above code doesn't work.  Please re-ask this question, but send
> some code that one can actually type in that works.
>
> William
>
> > Now I'm looking for a function as :
> > D:=Random(J)
> > Is there a such function in sage ? I know there exist a such function
> > in magma ,but
> > I don't have access to magma.
>
> > Thank you
>
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