Weierstrass Pure Gaps on Curves With Three Distinguished Points.

Let $ \mathbb K$ be an algebraically closed field. In this paper, we consider the class of smooth plane curves of degree $n+1>3$ over $ \mathbb K$ , containing three points, $P_{1},P_{2}$ , and $P_{3}$ , such that $nP_{1}+P_{2}$ , $nP_{2}+P_{3}$ , and $nP_{3}+P_{1}$ are divisors cut out by three distinct lines. For such curves, we determine the dimension of certain special divisors supported on $\{P_{1},P_{2},P_{3}\}$ , as well as an explicit description of all pure gaps at each nonempty subset of the distinguished points $P_{1},P_{2}$ , and $P_{3}$. When $ \mathbb K=\overline { \mathbb F}_{q}$ , this class of curves, which includes the Hermitian curve, is used to construct algebraic geometry codes having minimum distance better than the Goppa bound. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]