Nonvanishing of hyperelliptic zeta functions over finite fields

Abstract

Fixing $t\in ℝ$ and a finite field ${\mathbb{𝔽}}_q$ of odd characteristic, we give an explicit upper bound on the proportion of genus $g$ hyperelliptic curves over ${\mathbb{𝔽}}_q$ whose zeta function vanishes at $\frac{1}{2}+it$. Our upper bound is independent of $g$ and tends to $0$ as $q$ grows.