aInstitute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan;bSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia;cDepartment of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10764, Taiwan
Abstract:
We study Stickelberger elements associated to -extensions over global function fields of characteristic p>0 and show that they are in some sense generically irreducible in the Iwasawa algebras.