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A regular, geometrically reduced but non-smooth curve

Can anyone give an example of a projective, regular, geometrically reduced but non-smooth curve ? Of course, the base field should be imperfect. In Exercise 4.3.22 of Qing Liu's book Algebraic ...
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Number of curves over a finite field

Let $K$ be a finite field. Is there a formula for the number of isomorphism classes of genus $g$ smooth curves over $K$? In other words does there exists a formula for the number of rational points ...
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