Rational places in extensions and sequences of function fields of Kummer type

Abstract

In this paper we prove results on the number of rational places in extensions of Kummer type over finite fields and give sufficient conditions for non-trivial lower bounds on the number of rational places at each step of sequences of function fields over a finite field, that we call $(a,b)$-sequences. In the case of a prime field, we apply these results to the study of rational places in certain sequences of function fields of Kummer type.