On the p-adic meromorphy of the function field height zeta function

On the p-adic meromorphy of the function field height zeta function

In this brief note, we will investigate the number of points of bounded height in a projective variety defined over a function field, where the function field comes from a projective variety of dimension greater than or equal to 2. A first step in this investigation is to understand the p-adic analytic properties of the height zeta function. In particular, we will show that for a large class of...

ZETA FUNCTION OF REPRESENTATIONS OF COMPACT p-ADIC ANALYTIC GROUPS

Let G be a profinite group. We denote by rn(G) the number of isomorphism classes of irreducible n-dimensional complex continuous representations of G (so that the kernel is open in G). Following [20], we call rn(G) the representation growth function of G. If G is a finitely generated profinite group, then rn(G) < ∞ for every n if and only if G has the property FAb (that is, H/[H,H] is finite fo...

On the p-adic Riemann Hypothesis for the Zeta Function of Divisors

A p-adic Height Function Of Cryptanalytic Significance

It is noted that an efficient algorithm for calculating a p-adic height could have cryptanalytic applications. Elliptic curves and their generalizations are an active research topic with practical applications in cryptography [1], [2], [3]. If E is an elliptic curve defined over a finite field Fp, where p is prime, and if P and Q are points on the curve E such that Q = nP , then the elliptic cu...

Magic Cubes and the 3 - Adic Zeta Function