The Sato-tate Law for Drinfeld Modules

We prove an analogue of the Sato-Tate conjecture for Drinfeld modules. Using ideas of Drinfeld, J.-K. Yu showed that Drinfeld modules satisfy some Sato-Tate law, but did not describe the actual law. More precisely, for a Drinfeld module φ defined over a field L, he constructs a continuous representation ρ∞ : WL → D× of the Weil group of L into a certain division algebra, which encodes the Sato-Tate law. When φ has generic characteristic and L is finitely generated, we shall describe the image of ρ∞ up to commensurability. As an application, we give improved upper bounds for the Drinfeld module analogue of the Lang-Trotter conjecture.