Galois characters associated to formal -modules
For a prime number l and for a finite Galois l-extension of function fields L / K over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p <> l, it is obtained the Galois module structure of the generalized Jacobian associated to L, l and the ramified prime divisors. In the cyclic case an implicit integral representation of the Jacobian is obtained and this representation is compared with the explicit representation.
We construct Galois towers with good asymptotic properties over any non-prime finite field ; that is, we construct sequences of function fields = (N₁ ⊂ N₂ ⊂ ⋯) over of increasing genus, such that all the extensions are Galois extensions and the number of rational places of these function fields grows linearly with the genus. The limits of the towers satisfy the same lower bounds as the best currently known lower bounds for the Ihara constant for non-prime finite fields. Towers with these properties...
For a function field K and fixed polynomial F ∈ K[x] and varying f ∈ F (under certain restrictions) we give a lower bound for the degree of the greatest prime divisor of F(f) in terms of the height of f, establishing a strong result for the function field analogue of a classical problem in number theory.
In this paper, under a mild hypothesis, we prove a conjecture of Gross for the Stickelberger element of the maximal abelian extension over the rational function field unramified outside a set of four degree-one places.