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On the asymptotics of elementary-abelian extensions of local and global function fields

Number Theory 2025-06-06 v3

Abstract

We determine the distribution of discriminants of wildly ramified elementary-abelian extensions of local and global function fields in characteristic pp. For local and rational function fields, we also give precise formulae for the number of elementary-abelian extensions with a fixed discriminant divisor, which describe a local-global principle.

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@article{arxiv.2408.16394,
  title  = {On the asymptotics of elementary-abelian extensions of local and global function fields},
  author = {Nicolas Potthast},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16394},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

51 pages; the main result of the article is now stated in the introductory chapter (Theorem 1.1) and the order of the introduction has been adapted, a self-contained statement of the applied inclusion-exclusion principle has been added (Lemma 5.5), Remark 3.9 from the previous version has been removed, other minor changes; to appear in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society