COMMUNICATIONS IN ALGEBRA, cilt.42, sa.9, ss.3795-3810, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Let F-q be an arbitrary finite field of characteristic 2 and k be an arbitrary even integer. We count the number of quadratic forms having codimension 2 radicals on F-q(k) over F-q such that the corresponding curve is maximal or minimal. This problem is first attempted in [3], in which the number of maximal curves is obtained only for (q, k) = (2, 6) and (q, k) = (2, 8).