Example: Smooth quartic over a finite field We construct the Jacobian J of the curve C : x4 + 2y4 + x3 − 3xy − 2 = 0 over F293 , and generate a random point on J. J = smoothplanepicinit(x^4+2*y^4+x^3-3*x*y-2,29,3) W = picrand(J) picmember(J,W) piciszero(J,W) W2 = picrand(J); piceq(J,W,W2) picadd(J,W,W2) Nicolas Mascot p-adic computation of Galois representations