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Drinfeld Modular Curves Subordinate to Conjugacy Classes of Nilpotent Upper-Triangular Matrices

Number Theory 2023-09-04 v1 Algebraic Geometry Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We introduce normalized Drinfeld modular curves that parameterize rank mm Drinfeld modules compatible with a TT-torsion structure arising from a given conjugacy class of nilpotent upper-triangular n×nn\times n matrices with rank nm\geqslant n-m over a finite field Fq\mathbb{F}_q. This creates a deep link connecting the classification of nilpotent upper-triangular matrices and the decomposition of Drinfeld modular curves. The conjugacy classes of nilpotent upper-triangular matrices one-to-one corresponds to certain TT-torsion flags, and form a tree structure. As a result, the associated Drinfeld modular curves are organized in the same tree. This generalizes the tower structure introduced by Bassa, Beelen, Garcia, Stichtenoth, and others. Additionally,we prove the geometric irreducibility of (3,2)(3,2)-type normalized Drinfeld modular curves, and characterize their associated function fields.

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@article{arxiv.2309.00432,
  title  = {Drinfeld Modular Curves Subordinate to Conjugacy Classes of Nilpotent Upper-Triangular Matrices},
  author = {Zhuo Chen and Chuangqiang Hu and Tao Zhang and Xiaopeng Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00432},
  year   = {2023}
}

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43 pages

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