Fractional Power Series and Pairings on Drinfeld Modules

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Abstract: Let C be an algebraically closed field containing the finite field Fq and complete with respect to an absolute value |;|. We prove that under suitable constraints on the coefficients, the series converges to a surjective, open, continuous Fq-linear homomorphism CightarrowC whose kernel is locally compact. We characterize the locally compact sub-Fq-vector spaces G of C which occur as kernels of such series, and describe the extent to which G determines the series. We develop a theory of Newton polygons for these series which lets us compute the Haar measure of the set of zeros of f of a given valuation, given the valuations of the coefficients. The ``adjoint series converges everywhere if and only if f does, and in this case there is a natural bilinear pairing ker f imes ker f^ast ightarrow F_q which exhibits kerfast as the Pontryagin dual of kerf. Many of these results extend to non-linear fractional power series. We apply these results to construct a Drinfeld module analogue of the Weil pairing, and to describe the topological module structure of the kernel of the adjoint exponential of a Drinfeld module.









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