Galois groups associated to generic Drinfeld modules and a conjecture of Abhyankar

Abstract: Let

p h i

be a rank

r

Drinfeld

B F_{q} [T]

-module determined by

p h i_{T} (X) = T X + g_{1} X^{q} + ... + g_{r - 1} X^{q^{r - 1}} + X^{q^{r}}

, where

g_{1}, ..., g_{r - 1}

are algebraically independent over

B F_{q} (T)

. Let

N i n B F_{q} [T]

be a polynomial, and

k / B F_{q}

an algebraic extension. We show that the Galois group of

p h i_{N} (X)

over

k (T, g_{1}, ..., g_{r - 1})

is isomorphic to

G L_{r} (B F_{q} [T] / N B F_{q} [T])

, settling a conjecture of Abhyankar.

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