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Explicit formulas for Drinfeld modules and their periods

Number Theory 2016-05-12 v1

Abstract

We provide explicit series expansions for the exponential and logarithm functions attached to a rank r Drinfeld module that generalize well known formulas for the Carlitz exponential and logarithm. Using these results we obtain a procedure and an analytic expression for computing the periods of rank 2 Drinfeld modules and also a criterion for supersingularity.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5378,
  title  = {Explicit formulas for Drinfeld modules and their periods},
  author = {Ahmad El-Guindy and Matthew A. Papanikolas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5378},
  year   = {2016}
}

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20 pages

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