Papers and preprints



In memoriam Gilles Lachaud, La Gazette des Mathématiciens, Société Mathématique de France, Juillet 2018 - No. 157.



[0.1] Co-Editor with Gilles Lachaud of the proceedings of the 2003 conference Arithmetic, Geometry and Coding Theory, Société Mathématique de France, Collection "Séminaires et congrès", no. 11, 2005: url.

[0.2] Co-Editor with Claude Carlet, Philippe Langevin and Pascal Véron of a special issue of the Springer journal Cryptography and Communications - Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences, Volume 3, Number 4 / December 2011: special_issue.

[0.3] Co-Editor with Christophe Ritzenthaler and Alexey Zykin of the proceedings of the 2011 conference Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory, Contemporary Mathematics - Volume 574, American Mathematical Society 2012: content, url.

[0.4] Co-Editor with Everett W. Howe and Christophe Ritzenthaler of the proceedings of the 2017 conference Arithmetic Geometry: Computation and Applications, Contemporary Mathematics - Volume 722, American Mathematical Society 2019: url.

[0.5] Co-Editor with Pierre Barthélémy and Nadia El Mrabet of the Special Issue from Mathematics to Embedded Devices in Cryptography and Communications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12095-021-00502-1, Springer 2021: url, pdf.



[1.1] Reed-Muller codes associated to projective algebraic varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1518 Springer-Verlag, Coding Theory and Algebraic Geometry, 4-17 (1991); (pdf).

[1.2] Algebraic geometric codes on surfaces, Conference at Eurocode, Udine (Italie), (1992); in Ph.D. thesis of the University of Aix-Marseille II, France (11/02/1993); HAL preprint.

[1.3] Variétés sur un corps fini et codes géométriques algébriques, Ph.D. thesis of the University of Aix-Marseille II, France (11/02/1993), jury : Mireille Car, Patrick Delorme, Gilles Lachaud, Mireille Martin-Deschamps, François Rodier (referee), Mikhaïl Tsfasman (referee) and Jacques Wolfmann.

[1.4] A Weil theorem for singular curves, joint work with Marc Perret, Arithmetic, Geometry and Coding Theory - 1993, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 1-7 (1996); (pdf).

[1.5] Coverings of singular curves over finite fields, joint work with Marc Perret, Manuscripta Math.88, 467-478 (1995); (pdf).

[1.6] Class number in totally imaginary extensions of totally real function fields, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Finite fields and Applications, Lecture Note Series of the London Mathematical Society, Cambridge University Press, 23-29 (1996); (pdf).

[1.7] Imaginary bicyclic biquadratic functions fields in characteristic two, joint work with Dominique Le Brigand, J. Number Theory 77, 36-50 (1999); (pdf).

[1.8] Variétés algébriques et corps de fonctions sur un corps fini, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (13/12/2002), jury : Gerhard Frey (referee), Gerard van der Geer (referee), Gilles Lachaud, Eric Reyssat, Philippe Satgé, Mikhaïl Tsfasman, Serge Vladut (referee); (pdf).

[1.9] Divisibility of zeta functions of curves in a covering, joint work with Marc Perret, Archiv der Mathematik 82 (2004) 205-213; (pdf).

[1.10] On the characteristic polynomials of the Frobenius endomorphism for projective curves over finite fields, joint work with Marc Perret, Finite Fields and Their Applications 10/3 (2004) 412-431; (pdf).

[1.11] Class number in non Galois quartic and non abelian Galois octic function fields, Bulletin of the Greek Math. Soc., Vol. 52, 2006 (61-76); (pdf).

[1.12] On the weights of binary irreducible cyclic codes, joint work with Philippe Langevin, "Coding and Cryptography", Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  volume 3969, pp 46-54 (2006); (pdf).

[1.13] On the semiprimitivity of cyclic codes, joint work with Philippe Langevin, Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, World Scientific, Series on Number Theory and its Applications, vol. 5, pp 284-293 (2008); (pdf).

[1.14] On some questions related to the Gauss conjecture for function fields, joint work with Régis Blache,  Journal of Number Theory 128 (2008), no. 7, 2053-2062; (pdf).

[1.15] Differentially 4-uniform functions, joint work with François Rodier, Comtemporary Math. 521, pp 1-8 (2010) American Mathematical Society; (pdf).

[1.16] A few more functions that are not APN infinitely often, joint work with Gary McGuire and François Rodier,  Comtemporary Math. 518, pp  23-31 (2010) American Mathematical Society; (pdf).

[1.17] Vectorial solutions to list multicoloring problems on graphs, joint work with Jean-Christophe Godin and Olivier Togni, Advances and Applications in Discrete Mathematics, Volume 9, Number 2, pp 65-81 (2012); (pdf).

[1.18] Sur le nombre de points rationnels des variétés abéliennes et Jacobiennes sur les corps finis, joint work with Safia Haloui and Gilles Lachaud, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 350 (2012) 907–910;  (pdf).

[1.19] On the number of points on abelian and Jacobian varieties over finite fields, joint work with Safia Haloui and Gilles Lachaud, Acta Arithmetica 160.3, pp 201-242 (2013); (pdf).

[1.20] On a conjecture of Helleseth, joint work with Philippe Langevin, CAI 2013, LNCS 8080, pp. 113-118, 2013, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013; (pdf).

[1.21] Every triangle-free induced subgraph of the triangular lattice is $(5m,2m)$-choosable, joint work with Jean-Christophe Godin and Olivier Togni, Discrete Applied Mathematics 166 (2014), 51-58; pdf.

[1.22] Cyclotomie des sommes de Weil binomiales, joint work with Daniel J. Katz and Philippe Langevin, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 352 (2014) 373-376; pdf.

[1.23] Cyclotomy of Weil sums of binomials, joint work with Daniel J. Katz and Philippe Langevin, Journal of Number Theory 154 (2015) 160-178; pdf.

[1.24] On the maximum number of rational points on singular curves over finite fields, joint work with Annamaria Iezzi, Moscow Math. Journal, Volume 15, Issue 4, October-December 2015, pp. 615-627  (2015); website ; pdf.

[1.25] On the number of rational points on Prym varieties over finite fields, joint work with Safia Haloui, Glasgow Math. Journal, Vol 58, 55-68  (2016); pdf.

[1.26] Free Choosability of the cycle, joint work with Jean-Christophe Godin and Olivier Togni,  Graphs and Combinatorics, May 2016, Volume 32, pp. 851-859, Springer (2016) ; website; pdf.

[1.27] Thue equations and CM-fields, joint work with Dimitrios Poulakis,  Ramanujan Journal (2017) Volume 42, Issue 1, pp 145-156; pdf.

[1.28] Optimal and maximal singular curves, joint work with Annamaria Iezzi, Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 686, pp 31-43,  American Mathematical Society (2017); pdf.

[1.29] Hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces over finite fields with applications to coding theory, joint work with Wouter Castryck, Sudhir R. Ghorpade, Gilles Lachaud, Michael E. O'Sullivan and Samrith Ram,  Algebraic Geometry for Coding Theory and Cryptography, E.W. Howe et al. (eds), Springer "Association for Women in Mathematics" series  9, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-63931-4_2, pp 25-61 (2017); arXiv; (pdf).

[1.30] Differential uniformity and second order derivatives for generic polynomials, joint work with Fabien Herbaut, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 222 (2018), 1095-1110; pdf.

[1.31] Maximal differential uniformity polynomials, joint work with Fabien Herbaut and José Felipe Voloch, Acta Arithmetica 188.4, pp  345-366 (2019); pdf.

[1.32] Algebraic geometry codes over abelian surfaces containing no absolutely irreducible curves of low genus, joint work with Elena Berardini, Fabien Herbaut and Marc Perret, (arXiv (2019); arXiv), Finite Fields and Their Applications 70, pp. 1-20 (2021); pdf.

[1.33] Bounds on the minimum distance of algebraic geometry codes defined over some families of surfaces, joint work with Elena Berardini, Fabien Herbaut and Marc Perret, in Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory, Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 770, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2021, pp. 11-28; pdf.

[1.34] Polynomials with maximal differential uniformity and the exceptional APN conjecture, joint work with Fabien Herbaut and Ali Issa, Journal of Algebra, Vol. 635, 1 December 2023, pp. 822-837 (2023) ; pdf.

[1.35] Closed points on curves over finite fields, joint work with Fabien Herbaut and Julien Monaldi, submitted (2023) ; arXiv.

[1.36] Maximal number of rational points on hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces over finite fields, joint work with Marc Perret, submitted (2024) ; arXiv.

[1.37] Trinomials with high differential uniformity, joint work with Fabien Herbaut and Ali Issa, submitted (2024) ; arXiv.



[2.1] Algebraic geometric codes on surfaces, Conference at Eurocode, Udine (Italie), (1992); in Ph.D. thesis of the University of Aix-Marseille II, France (11/02/1993) ; HAL preprint.

[2.2] On the weights of irreducible cyclic codes, joint work with Philippe Langevin, Book of Abstract of the Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Bergen (Norway), pp 161-169 (2005); (pdf)

[2.3] Extended core and choosability of a graph, joint work with Jean-Christophe Godin and Olivier Togni,  (2010); arXiv preprint.



[3.1] Une formule de nombres de classes, Rapport de Recherche S.D.A.D. - C.N.R.S. ESA 6081, (1998-3).

[3.2] Principal imaginary bicyclic function fields, Rapport de Recherche S.D.A.D. - C.N.R.S. ESA 6081, (1998-4).

[3.3] An analogue of an Artin conjecture for zeta function of algebraic curves, joint work with Marc Perret, Prétirage de l'Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy no. 2002-25, (14 pages), (2002).

[3.4] Asymptotic theory of algebraic geometry codes, preprint 2008-05 of the "Institut de Mathématiques de Toulon" (2008).