Natural Operators Lifting Vector Fields to Bundles of Weil Contact Elements

Let A be a Weil algebra. The bijection between all natural operators lifting vector fields from m-manifolds to the bundle functor K ^A of Weil contact elements and the subalgebra of fixed elements SA of the Weil algebra A is determined and the bijection between all natural affinors on K ^A and SA is deduced. Furthermore, the rigidity of the functor K ^A is proved. Requisite results about the structure of SA are obtained by a purely algebraic approach, namely the existence of nontrivial SA is discussed.     

Fractional Power Series and Pairings on Drinfeld Modules

Let be an algebraically closed field containing which is complete with respect to an absolute value . We prove that under suitable constraints on the coefficients, the series converges to a surjective, open, continuous -linear homomorphism whose kernel is locally compact. We characterize the locally compact sub--vector spaces of which occur as kernels of such series, and describe the extent to which determines the series. We develop a theory of Newton polygons for these series which lets us compute the Haar measure of the set of zeros of of a given valuation, given the valuations of the coefficients. The ``adjoint' series converges everywhere if and only if does, and in this case there is a natural bilinear pairing

which exhibits as the Pontryagin dual of . Many of these results extend to non-linear fractional power series. We apply these results to construct a Drinfeld module analogue of the Weil pairing, and to describe the topological module structure of the kernel of the adjoint exponential of a Drinfeld module.

     

The Bertini irreducibility theorem for higher codimensional slices

In [3], Poonen and Slavov recently developed a novel approach to Bertini irreducibility theorems over an arbitrary field, based on random hyperplane slicing. In this paper, we extend their work by proving an analogous bound for the dimension of the exceptional locus in the setting of linear subspaces of higher codimensions.     

Irreducibility and the distribution of some exponential sums

We relate the distribution of the absolute value of some generalized Gauss sums to the absolute irreducibility of some polynomials in two variables in characteristic 0 and p.     

On Polynomials over a Finite Field of Even Characteristic with Maximum Absolute Value of the Trigonometric Sum

We study trigonometric sums in finite fields . The Weil estimate of such sums is well known: , where f is a polynomial with coefficients from F(Q). We construct two classes of polynomials f, , for which attains the largest possible value and, in particular, .     

A note on Weil index

Let F be a non-archimedean local field of characteristic 0 and(?)a nontrivial additive character.Weil first defined the Weil indexγ(a,(?))(a∈F~*)in his famous paper,from which we know thatγ(a,(?))γ(b,(?))=γ(ab,(?))γ(1,(?))(a,b)andγ(a,(?))~4 =(-1,-1),where(a,b)is the Hilbert symbol for F.The Weil index plays an important role in the theory of theta series and in the general representation theory.In this paper,we establish an identity relating the Weil indexγ(a,(?))and the Gauss sum.     

On Polynomials of Special Form over a Finite Field of Odd Characteristic Attaining the Weil Bound

An explicit construction of polynomials over a finite field of odd characteristic, for which the absolute value of trigonometric sums attains the Weil bound, is based on the construction of cyclic matrices of given rank. Dickson polynomials of the second kind play an essential role in the study of such matrices.__________Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, vol. 78, no. 1, 2005, pp. 16–25.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by L. A. Bassalygo, V. A. Zinov’ev.