Class groups and L-series of function fields

Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Zeta functions and related questions in algebraic geometry (e.g., Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) (14G10) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Algebraic functions and function fields in algebraic geometry (14H05) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30)

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The author considers Galois coverings Y/X of projective non-singular algebraic curves defined over a perfect field K of prime characteristic p.. Throughout the paper, the group G of Y/X is assumed to be prime to p. First, in considering the decomposition (with respect to characters \(\chi\) of G) of the group \(C^ 0(Y)(p)\) of divisor classes of Y annihilated by p, the author refines the notion of Hasse-Witt invariant, and describes the relation with the Cartier operator C on Y. For being able to formulate his principal results, he assumes now Y/X to be defined over a finite field \({\mathbb{F}}_ q\), and he gives a short review of the relevant L-series. The main results are contained in section 4, namely the relation between reductions of L-series modulo p and the characteristic polynomial of C (theorem 4.1) and the p-class number formula (theorem 4.2). These results refine and extend analogous results of Manin and others in more special situations (e.g. G \(= trivial\), or abelian with certain ramification conditions).

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