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We give explicit equations for the simplest towers of Drinfeld modular curves over any finite field, and observe that they coincide with the asymptotically optimal towers of curves constructed by Garcia and Stichtenoth.
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Elkies, N.D. (2001). Explicit Towers of Drinfeld Modular Curves. In: Casacuberta, C., Miró-Roig, R.M., Verdera, J., Xambó-Descamps, S. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 202. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8266-8_14
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