Almost all known restrictions on the topology of nonsingular real algebraic curves in the projective plane are also valid for a wider class of objects: real pseudo-holomorphic curves. It is still unknown if there exists a nonsingular real pseudo-holomorphic curve not isotopic in the projective plane to a real algebraic curve of the same degree. In this article, we focus our study on symmetric r...

In this chapter, we study elliptic curves defined over finite fields. Our discussion will include the Weil conjectures for elliptic curves, criteria for supersingularity and a description of the possible groups arising as E(Fq). We shall use basic algebraic geometry of elliptic curves. Specifically, we shall need the notion and properties of isogenies of elliptic curves and of the Weil pairing....

This paper presents an algorithm to solve the approximate implicitization of planar parametric curves using cubic algebraic splines. It applies piecewise cubic algebraic curves to give a global G2 continuity approximation to planar parametric curves. Approximation error on approximate implicitization of rational curves is given. Several examples are provided to prove that the proposed method is...

The goal of this paper is to prove Bézout’s Theorem for algebraic curves. Along the way, we introduce some basic notions in algebraic geometry such as affine and projective varieties and intersection numbers of algebraic curves. After proving Bézout’s Theorem, we investigate Max Noether’s Fundamental Theorem and construct the group law on a plane cubic which is the first step in studying the ar...