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Endomorphism rings of reductions of Drinfeld modules

Number Theory 2019-04-09 v2

Abstract

Let A=Fq[T]A=\mathbb{F}_q[T] be the polynomial ring over Fq\mathbb{F}_q, and FF be the field of fractions of AA. Let ϕ\phi be a Drinfeld AA-module of rank r2r\geq 2 over FF. For all but finitely many primes pA\mathfrak{p}\lhd A, one can reduce ϕ\phi modulo p\mathfrak{p} to obtain a Drinfeld AA-module ϕFp\phi\otimes\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p} of rank rr over Fp=A/p\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p}=A/\mathfrak{p}. The endomorphism ring Ep=EndFp(ϕFp)\mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}=\mathrm{End}_{\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p}}(\phi\otimes\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p}) is an order in an imaginary field extension KK of FF of degree rr. Let Op\mathcal{O}_\mathfrak{p} be the integral closure of AA in KK, and let πpEp\pi_\mathfrak{p}\in \mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p} be the Frobenius endomorphism of ϕFp\phi\otimes\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p}. Then we have the inclusion of orders A[πp]EpOpA[\pi_\mathfrak{p}]\subset \mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}\subset \mathcal{O}_\mathfrak{p} in KK. We prove that if EndFalg(ϕ)=A\mathrm{End}_{F^\mathrm{alg}}(\phi)=A, then for arbitrary non-zero ideals n,m\mathfrak{n}, \mathfrak{m} of AA there are infinitely many p\mathfrak{p} such that n\mathfrak{n} divides the index χ(Ep/A[πp])\chi(\mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}/A[\pi_\mathfrak{p}]) and m\mathfrak{m} divides the index χ(Op/Ep)\chi(\mathcal{O}_\mathfrak{p}/\mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}). We show that the index χ(Ep/A[πp])\chi(\mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}/A[\pi_\mathfrak{p}]) is related to a reciprocity law for the extensions of FF arising from the division points of ϕ\phi. In the rank r=2r=2 case we describe an algorithm for computing the orders A[πp]EpOpA[\pi_\mathfrak{p}]\subset \mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}\subset \mathcal{O}_\mathfrak{p}, and give some computational data.

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@article{arxiv.1804.07904,
  title  = {Endomorphism rings of reductions of Drinfeld modules},
  author = {Sumita Garai and Mihran Papikian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07904},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Journal of Number Theory (David Goss Memorial Issue), to appear