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Galois Seminar

Friday, December 6, 2002 - 4:00pm

Ganesh Sundaram

Bell Labs

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

The past few decades have witnessed a dramatic growth in our understanding of function fields over a finite field. Drinfeld modules have played a significant role in this process. These objects are in a sense "arithmetically" analogous to elliptic curves over number fields. In this talk I will present a partial survey of results related to Galois extensions of functions fields attached to Drinfeld modules. Almost all results have classical analogs.