Explicit formulas for Drinfeld modules and their periods

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Publication:1946709



Abstract: We provide explicit series expansions for the exponential and logarithm functions attached to a rank r Drinfeld module that generalize well known formulas for the Carlitz exponential and logarithm. Using these results we obtain a procedure and an analytic expression for computing the periods of rank 2 Drinfeld modules and also a criterion for supersingularity.


After introducing some notation from the theory of Drinfeld modules (lattice \(\Lambda\), exponential function \(e_{\Lambda}\), logarithm function \(\log_{\Lambda}\) attached to a Drinfeld module), the authors apply their notion of ``shadowed partitions to find compact formulas for the coefficients of \(\exp_{\Lambda}\) and \(\log_{\Lambda}\). In the case of Drinfeld modules of rank 2, they also determine the radius of convergence of \(\log_{\Lambda}\) and, under the assumption that the lattice \(\Lambda\) has a minimal basis with two different lengths, they give an analytic expression for a minimal non-zero vector in \(\Lambda\).











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