Integrable systems and number theory in finite characteristic (Q5940193)

This paper is a ``succinct overview'' of applications of the so-called Drinfeld-Krichever dictionary related to an algebro-geometric description of commutative subrings of some noncommutative rings of operators [\textit{D. Mumford}, in Proc. Int. Symp. on Algebraic Geometry, Kyoto, 1977, 115-153 (1977; Zbl 0423.14007)]. The author considers mainly applications to the arithmetic of function fields in positive characteristic. More precisely, five topics are discussed: (i) explicit class field theory and the Langlands conjecture, (ii) Gauss sums, (iii) special values of \(\Gamma\)-functions and the Brumer-Stark conjectures, (iv) special values of zeta- and \(L\)-functions, and (v) torsion points on theta divisors.