Analogue of the degree conjecture over function fields
Authors:
Mihran Papikian
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Abstract:
Under a certain assumption, similar to Manin's conjecture, we prove an upper bound on the degree of modular parametrizations of elliptic curves by Drinfeld modular curves, which is the function field analogue of the conjectured bound over the rational numbers.