Drinfeld modular curve and Weil pairing

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2005.05.039MaRDI QIDQ2497462zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gert-Jan van der Heiden

Publication date 4 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411490

zbMATH Keywords

compactification Drinfeld modular curve Drinfeld modules Weil pairing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Drinfel'd modules; higher-dimensional motives, etc. (11G09) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58)

Abstract: In this paper we describe the compactification of the Drinfeld modular curve. This compactification is analogous to the compactification of the classical modular curve given by Katz and Mazur. We show how the Weil pairing on Drinfeld modules that we defined in earlier work gives rise to a map on the Drinfeld modular curve. We introduce the Tate-Drinfeld module and show how this describes the formal neighbourhood of the scheme of cusps of the Drinfeld modular curve.

Review text

Consider a smooth, projective and geometrically irreducible curve \(X\) over a finite field \(k\). Let \(\infty\) be a point of \( X \) and denote by \(A\) the ring of functions that are regular on \(X - \infty\). Let \(f \in A\) be non-constant. Then the functor from \(A[1/f]\)-schemes to sets that maps \(S\) to the set of isomorphism classes of Drinfeld modules of rank \(r\) with a full level \(f\)-structure over \( S \) is representable by a scheme \(M^r(f)\). The author has previously constructed a Weil pairing for Drinfeld \(A\)-modules (see \textit{G.-J. van der Heiden} [Monatsh. Math. 143, No. 2, 115--143 (2004; Zbl 1077.11044)]). It induces a map \(w: M^r(f) \to M^1(f)\). In the present paper the author defines the universal Tate Drinfeld module, the analogue of the Tate elliptic curve. He then uses this universal Tate Drinfeld module and the map \(w\) to describe the scheme of cusps of \(M^2(f)\) and of the Drinfeld modular analogue of the modular curve \(X^0(N)\). Finally he uses the results to compute the number of components of \(M^2(f)\).

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