Dwork Congruences and reflexive Polytopes
Algebraic Geometry
2009-11-05 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
We show that the coefficients of the power series expansion of the principal period of a Laurent polynomial satisfy strong congruence properties. These congruences play a key role in the explicit p-adic analytic continuation of the unit root.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.0797,
title = {Dwork Congruences and reflexive Polytopes},
author = {Kira Samol and Duco van Straten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0797},
year = {2009}
}