Research Articles

    Preprints

  1. (with H. Borges and B. Motta),
    A new family of complete arcs PDF,
    February 2012.

  2. (with S. Tafazolian),
    On the characterization of certain maximal curves PDF,
    September 2011.

  3. (with R. Furhmann and A. Garcia),
    On maximal curves and unramified coverings PDF,
    March 2005.

    Papers in Conference Proceedings

  1. (with C. Munuera and J. Villanueva),
    Sparse numerical semigroups PDF,
    AAECC 2009,
    (M. Bras-Amorós and T. H\o holdt Eds.), 23-31, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 5527,
    Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.

  2. (with A. Garcia),
    On unramified coverings of maximal curves PDF,
    Séminaires et Congrès 21, SMF 2009, 35-42.

  3. (with M. Giulietti, J.W.P. Hirschfeld and G. Korchmáros),
    A family of curves covered by the Hermitian curve PDF,
    Séminaires et Congrès 21, SMF 2009, 63-78.

  4. (with C. Munuera and A. Sepúlveda),
    Algebraic Geometry codes from Castle curves PDF,
    Coding Theory and Applications, Second International Castle Meeting, ICMCTA 2008
    (A. Barbero Ed.), 117-127, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 5228,
    Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008.

  5. (with C. Munuera and G.C. Tizziotti),
    Two-point codes on Norm-Trace curves PDF,
    Coding Theory and Applications, Second International Castle Meeting, ICMCTA 2008
    (A. Barbero Ed.), 128-136, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 5228,
    Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008.

  6. (with A. Garcia),
    On maximal curves having classical Weierstrass gaps PDF,
    Applications of curves over finite fields (M.D. Fried Ed.), 49-59, Contemp. Math. 245,
    Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1999.

    Papers in International Journals

  1. (with J. I. Farrán, C. Munuera and G. Tizzioti),
    Gröbner Basis for Norm-Trace Codes PDF,
    J. Symbolic Comput., to appear.

  2. (with C. Munuera and A. Sepúlveda),
    Generalized Hermitian codes PDF,
    Des. Codes Cryptogr., to appear.

  3. (with O. Geil, C. Munuera and D. Ruano),
    On the order bounds for one-point AG codes PDF,
    Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 5(3) (2011), 489-504.

  4. (with G. Oliveira and J. Villanueva),
    On the weight of numerical semigroups PDF,
    J. Pure Appl. Algebra, 214(11) (2010), 1955-1961.

  5. (with C. Munuera and A. Sepúlveda),
    Castle curves and codes PDF,
    Advances in Mathematics of Communications 3(4) (2009), 399-408.

  6. (with C. Munuera ),
    A note on the order bound on the minimum distance and acute semigroups PDF,
    Advances in Mathematics of Communications 2(2) (2008), 175-181.

  7. (with C. Munuera),
    The structure of algebras admitting well agreeing near weights PDF,
    J. Pure Appl. Algebra. 212 (2007), 910-918.

  8. (with C. Carvalho, C. Munuera and E. Silva),
    Near orders and codes PDF,
    IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory. 53(5) (2007), 1919-1924.

  9. (with M. Giulietti, J.W.P. Hirschfeld and G. Korchmáros),
    Curves covered by the Hermitian curve PDF,
    Finite Fields Appl. 12 (2006), 539-564.
    Revised Version: February 2006.

  10. (with M. Giulietti and G. Korchmáros),
    Quotient curves of the Suzuki curve PDF,
    Acta Arith. 122(3) (2006), 245-274.

  11. (with M. Abdón),
    On $F_{q^2}$-maximal curves of genus $(q-3)q/6$ PDF,
    Beiträge Algebra Geom.46(1) (2005), 241-260.

  12. (with C. Carvalho),
    On Goppa codes and Weierstrass gaps at several points PDF,
    Des. Codes Cryptogr. 35(2) (2005), 211-225.

  13. (with C. Munuera),
    Bounding the trellis state complexity of algebraic geometric codes PDF,
    Appl. Algebra Eng. Comm. Comput. 15 (2004), 81-100.

  14. (with M. Giulietti),
    On dense sets related to plane algebraic curves PDF,
    Ars Combin. LXII (2004), 33-40.

  15. (with C. Munuera),
    A Goppa-like bound on the trellis state complexity of algebraic
    geometric codes PDF,
    IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 49(3) (2003), 733-737.

  16. (with C. Carvalho),
    On numerical semigroups related to coverings of curves PDF ,
    Semigroup Forum 67 (2003), 344-354.

  17. (with G. Korchmáros),
    On the genus of a maximal curve,
    Math. Ann. 323(3) (2002), 589-608.

  18. (with M. Giulietti, F. Pambianco and E. Ughi),
    On complete arcs arising from plane curves PDF,
    Des. Codes Cryptogr. 25(3) (2002), 237-246.

  19. (with M. Giulietti, F. Pambianco and E. Ughi),
    On large complete arcs: odd case PDF,
    Discrete Math. 255 (2002), 145-159.

  20. (with A. Aguglia and G. Korchmáros),
    Plane maximal curves PDF,
    Acta Arith. 98(2) (2001), 165-179.

  21. (with G. Korchmáros),
    Embedding of a maximal curve in a Hermitian variety,
    Compositio Math. 128 (2001), 95-113.

  22. (with A. Cossidente and G. Korchmáros),
    Curves of large genus covered by the Hermitian curve PDF,
    Comm. Algebra 28(1) (2000), 4707-4728.
    Revised version: May 2006.

  23. (with A. Cossidente, J.W.P. Hirschfeld and G. Korchmáros),
    On plane maximal curves,
    Compositio Math. 121(2) (2000), 163-181.

  24. (with R. Pellikaan),
    On Weierstrass semigroups and the redundancy of improved geometric Goppa codes PDF,
    IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 45(7) (1999), 2512-2519.

  25. (with M. Abdón),
    On maximal curves in characteristic two PDF,
    Manuscripta Math. 99 (1999), 39-53.

  26. (with A. Cossidente and G. Korchmáros),
    On curves covered by the Hermitian curve PDF,
    J. Algebra 216 (1999), 56-76.

  27. (with R. Fuhrmann),
    On Weierstrass points and optimal curves PDF,
    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo Suppl. 51 (1998) 25-46.
    Revised Version: August 2009.

  28. (with R. Pellikaan and H. Stichtenoth),
    Weierstrass semigroups in an asymptotically good tower of functions fields PDF,
    Finite Fields Appl. 4 (1998), 381-392.

  29. (with R. Fuhrmann and A. Garcia),
    On maximal curves,
    J. Number Theory 67(1) (1997), 29-51.

  30. On the constellations of Weierstrass points PDF,
    Arch. Math. 68 (1997), 139-144.

  31. On $\gamma$-hyperelliptic numerical semigroups,
    Semigroup Forum 55 (1997), 364-379.

  32. (with R. Fuhrmann),
    The genus of curves over finite fields with many rational points PDF,
    Manuscripta Math. 89 (1996), 103-106.
    Revised version: October 2009.

  33. Bounding the order of automorphisms of certain curves PDF,
    Rend. Istit. Mat. Univ. Trieste 27 (1995), 85-116.

  34. On certain $N$-sheeted coverings of curves and numerical semigroups which
    cannot be realized as Weierstrass semigroups PDF,
    Comm. Algebra 23(11) (1995) 4211-4228.
    Revised version: July 2006.

  35. Weierstrass points and double coverings of curves. With application: symmetric
    numerical semigroups which cannot be realized as Weierstrass semigroups PDF,
    Manuscripta Math. 83 (1994), 39-58.
    Revised Version: July 2006.