Nonrational genus zero function fields and the Bruhat-Tits tree

DOI10.1080/00927870902828926MaRDI QIDQ3656738zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Schweizer, A. W. Mason

Publication date 14 January 2010

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0804

zbMATH Keywords

Bruhat-Tits treequaternion groupsgenus zerononrational function fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06)

Abstract: Let K be a function field with constant field k and let "infinity" be a fixed place of K. Let C be the Dedekind domain consisting of all those elements of K which are integral outside "infinity". The group G=GL_2(C) is important for a number of reasons. For example, when k is finite, it plays a central role in the theory of Drinfeld modular curves. Many properties follow from the action of G on its associated Bruhat-Tits tree, T. Classical Bass-Serre theory shows how a presentation for G can be derived from the structure of the quotient graph (or fundamental domain) GT. The shape of this quotient graph (for any G) is described in a fundamental result of Serre. However there are very few known examples for which a detailed description of GT is known. (One such is the rational case, C=k[t], i.e. when K has genus zero and "infinity" has degree one.) In this paper we give a precise description of GT for the case where the genus of K is zero, K has no places of degree one and "infinity" has degree two. Among the known examples a new feature here is the appearance of vertex stabilizer subgroups (of G) which are of quaternionic type.

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