Trace formula for rings of Witt vectors
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Trace formula for rings of Witt vectors
zbMATH Open document ID: 1373.13023
author: Siham Mokhfi
author: Bénali Benzaghou
published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris
publication date: 2017-07-19T00:00:00Z
review text: In the paper under review, the authors generalize Pulita exponential series and apply them to establish an analog of the trace formula for rings of Witt vectors. Recall that the zeta function of an algebraic variety \(V\) defined over a finite field \({\mathbb F}_q\), where \(q = p^s\) and \(p\) is an odd prime, is given by \[ \zeta(V, t) = e^{\sum_{r \geq 1} N_r \frac{t^r}{r}}, \] where \(N_r\) is the number of \({\mathbb F}_{q^{r-}}\) points on \(V\). In his classical work \textit{B. Dwork} [Am. J. Math. 82, 631--648 (1960; Zbl 0173.48501)] used the expression of the number \(N_r\) by multiplicative and additive characters to prove the rationality of \(\zeta\), analytically expressed the additive character on \({\mathbb F}_{q^r}\) in terms of the series \(e^{\pi (x - x^q)}\) (where \(\pi = \sqrt[p-1]{-p}\)), and used the trace formula to express \(N_r\). The authors prove an analog of Dwork's trace formula for Gauss sums on Witt vectors over \({\mathbb F}_q\) of finite length \(2\). The main tool used in the argument is a generalisation of \textit{A. Pulita}'s exponential series [Math. Ann. 337, No. 3, 489--555 (2007; Zbl 1125.12001)].
reviewed by: Paweł Gładki
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 13F35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11E81
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14G10
zbMATH DE Number: 6748826
zbMATH Keywords: Witt vectors
zbMATH Keywords: trace formula
zbMATH Keywords: Pulita series
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: j.crma.2016.11.014
OpenAlex ID: W2622247906
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DOI: 10.1016/J.CRMA.2016.11.014
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6748826