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Characteristic p Galois Representations That Arise from Drinfeld Modules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Nigel Boston
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA, email: boston@math.uiuc.edu
David T. Ose
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, USA, email: ose-d@member.ams.org
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Abstract

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We examine which representations of the absolute Galois group of a field of finite characteristic with image over a finite field of the same characteristic may be constructed by the Galois group’s action on the division points of an appropriate Drinfeld module.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2000

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