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MA 5250: Drinfeld Modules

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Class timings: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday (Slot B) & Room No. MA-114

Examination and Grades:

The grades will be decided by the marks obtained in the assignments, mid-term, surprise tests, the final examination, and also by the performance in the class.

Syllabus:

Algebraic Preliminaries, Non-Archimedean Fields, Basic Properties of Drinfeld Modules, Algebraic and Analytic Theory of Drinfeld Modules, Drinfeld Modules over Finite, Local and Global Fields

References:

Papikian, Mihran. Drinfeld modules. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 296. Springer, Cham, 2023 (1st edition)
Dinesh S. Thakur. Function field arithmetic, World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge, NJ, 2004 (2nd edition).
E.-U. Gekeler, M. van der Put, M. Reversat, and J. Van Geel (eds.). Drinfeld modules, modular schemes and applications, World Scientific Publishing Co., River Edge, NJ, 1997.
Ernst-Ulrich Gekeler. Drinfeld modular curves, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1231, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.