Tannakian Duality for Anderson-drinfeld Motives and Algebraic Independence of Carlitz Logarithms
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چکیده
We develop a theory of Tannakian Galois groups for t-motives and relate this to the theory of Frobenius semilinear difference equations. We show that the transcendence degree of the period matrix associated to a given t-motive is equal to the dimension of its Galois group. Using this result we prove that Carlitz logarithms of algebraic functions that are linearly independent over the rational function field are algebraically independent.
منابع مشابه
Transcendence in Positive Characteristic
1. Table of symbols 2 2. Transcendence for Drinfeld modules 2 2.1. Wade’s results 2 2.2. Drinfeld modules 3 2.3. The Weierstraß-Drinfeld correspondence 3 2.4. Carlitz 5 2.5. Yu’s work 6 3. t-Modules 7 3.1. Definitions 7 3.2. Yu’s sub-t-module theorem 8 3.3. Yu’s version of Baker’s theorem 8 3.4. Proof of Baker-Yu 8 3.5. Quasi-periodic functions 9 3.6. Derivatives and linear independence 12 3.7....
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