Explicit Galois representations of automorphisms on holomorphic differentials in characteristic $p$

Abstract

We determine the representation of the group of automorphisms for cyclotomic function fields in characteristic $p>0$ induced by the natural action on the space of holomorphic differentials via construction of an explicit basis of differentials. This includes those cases which present wild ramification and automorphism groups with non-cyclic $p$-part, which have remained elusive. We also obtain information on the gap sequences of ramified primes. Finally, we extend these results to rank one Drinfel'd modules.

18 pages