On Gekeler's conjecture for function fields

DOI10.1006/JNTH.2000.2587MaRDI QIDQ5931318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bruno Anglès

Publication date 24 April 2001

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jnth.2000.2587

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli-Carlitz numbersclass numbercyclotomic function fieldincongruenceregulatorTeichmüller character

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Drinfel'd modules; higher-dimensional motives, etc. (11G09) Cyclotomic function fields (class groups, Bernoulli objects, etc.) (11R60) Arithmetic theory of polynomial rings over finite fields (11T55)

Review text

Gekeler's conjecture states that non-triviality of isotypical components for the Teichmüller character of the \(p\)-primary class group of the ring of integers in a totally real cyclotomic function field \(F\) (tensored with a Witt ring) is implied by divisibility of Bernoulli-Carlitz numbers [for a precise formulation, see \textit{E.-U. Gekeler}, J., Number Theory 34, 114-127 (1990; Zbl 0695.12008)]. Here, it is shown that this conjecture follows from an incongruence for the regulator of \(F\) (via a class number congruence in the style of Metsänkylä's). Incongruence is true for certain quadratic \(F\), but not for general \(F\). The author constructs some more families for which it is true, and hence he can for example translate (via Gekeler's conjecture, then a theorem) the divisibility of the class number of certain cubic function fields over \({\mathbb F}_q\) into a set of numerical congruences involving only \(q\).

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