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Kummer-faithfulness for function fields

Number Theory 2023-11-10 v2

Abstract

A perfect field KK is said to be Kummer-faithful if the Mordell-Weil group of every semi-abelian variety over every finite extension of KK has no nonzero divisible element. The class of Kummer-faithful fields contains that of sub-pp-adic fields and is thought to be suitable for developing anabelian geometry. In this paper, we investigate a function field analogue of the notion of Kummer-faithful fields. We introduce a notion of Drinfeld-Kummer-faithful (DKF) fields using Drinfeld modules. A sufficient condition for a Galois extension of a function field to be DKF is provided in terms of ramification theory. More precisely, a Galois extension with finite maximal ramification break outside the infinite prime (1/t)(1 / t) over a finite extension of the rational function field Fq(t)\mathbb{F}_q(t) over the finite field Fq\mathbb{F}_q of qq elements is DKF. Some examples of DKF fields are also given. The construction of these examples is inspired by Ozeki and Taguchi's examples of highly Kummer-faithful fields.

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@article{arxiv.2303.04396,
  title  = {Kummer-faithfulness for function fields},
  author = {Takuya Asayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04396},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages. The description of a Tate uniformization of a Drinfeld module is corrected, Abstract is rewritten, some expressions are changed, several typos are fixed

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