Number Theory Seminar
John Sung Min Lee
University of Illinois at Chicago
The distribution in arithmetic progressions of primes of $r-1$ cyclic components for Drinfeld modules
Abstract: Given a prime power $q$, let $A = \mathbb{F}_q[T]$ and $k = \mathbb{F}_q(T)$. Take a finite extension $K/k$ and $\psi$ a generic Drinfeld $A$-module over $K$ of rank $r \geq 2$. Given a prime $\wp$ of good reduction for $\psi$, the reduction $\psi_\wp(\mathbb{F}_\wp)$ forms a finite $A$-module of rank at most $r$. Let us denote the first invariant factor of $\psi_\wp(\mathbb{F}_\wp)$ by $d_{1,\wp}(\psi)$. Kuo and Liu determined the density of primes of $K$ for which $d_{1,\wp}(\psi) = 1$, given $\psi$ has a trivial endomorphism ring. Cojocaru and Shulman largely generalized their results and determined the density of primes of $K$ for which $d_{1,\wp}(\psi) = d$ without any assumption. In this talk, we add a congruence class condition on their results, i.e., we study the distribution of primes $\mathfrak{p}$ of $k$ that lie in an arithmetic progression and $d_{1,\mathfrak{p}}(\psi) = d$.
Friday September 29, 2023 at 1:00 PM in 427 SEO