The divisibility of zeta functions of cyclotomic function fields

Abstract

In this paper, we generalize Bernoulli-Goss polynomials, and give a criterion on the divisibility of zeta functions of cyclotomic function fields. As an application of our criterion, for a given polynomial $f(u)$, we prove that there are infinitely many cyclotomic function fields whose zeta polynomial is divided by $f(u)$.

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