Genus growth in $\mathbb {Z}_p$-towers of function fields
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Corrigendum: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 147 (2019), 5019-5021.
Abstract:
Let $K$ be a function field over a finite field $k$ of characteristic $p$ and let $K_{\infty }/K$ be a geometric extension with Galois group $\mathbb {Z}_p$. Let $K_n$ be the corresponding subextension with Galois group $\mathbb {Z}/p^n\mathbb {Z}$ and genus $g_n$. In this paper, we give a simple explicit formula for $g_n$ in terms of an explicit Witt vector construction of the $\mathbb {Z}_p$-tower. This formula leads to a tight lower bound on $g_n$ which is quadratic in $p^n$. Furthermore, we determine all $\mathbb {Z}_p$-towers for which the genus sequence is stable, in the sense that there are $a,b,c \in \mathbb {Q}$ such that $g_n=a p^{2n}+b p^n +c$ for $n$ large enough. Such genus stable towers are expected to have strong stable arithmetic properties for their zeta functions. A key technical contribution of this work is a new simplified formula for the Schmid-Witt symbol coming from local class field theory.References
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Additional Information
- Michiel Kosters
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, 340 Rowland Hall, Irvine, California 92697
- MR Author ID: 1005639
- Email: kosters@gmail.com
- Daqing Wan
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, 340 Rowland Hall, Irvine, California 92697
- MR Author ID: 195077
- Email: dwan@math.uci.edu
- Received by editor(s): March 15, 2017
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 7, 2017
- Published electronically: November 13, 2017
- Communicated by: Mathew A. Papanikolas
- © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), 1481-1494
- MSC (2010): Primary 11G20, 11R37, 12F05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13895
- MathSciNet review: 3754335