Numerical transfer from normalization counts to affine counts #
The geometric comparison between an affine plane curve and its normalization is naturally expressed by two inequalities between natural-number cardinalities. This file isolates the real absolute-value bookkeeping needed to combine those inequalities with the closed Hasse--Weil bound.
If the affine and normalization counts differ by at most error in both
directions, then a Hasse--Weil bound for the normalization transfers to the
affine count, with the affine/projective constant 1 and error added.
Large-degree branch of the affine estimate. A trivial fiber bound by
fieldCard * smallDegree already has Hasse--Weil scale whenever the other
coordinate degree is at least sqrt fieldCard.
In the small-degree branch, the explicit resultant bound for the second-coordinate critical locus is already of Hasse--Weil scale.
The coarse zeta numerator degree budget is bounded by three times the bidegree product, which is sufficient for a universal affine coefficient.
The constant affine/projective correction 1 is absorbed by the
square-root bidegree scale over every nontrivial finite field.