Compactification of Drinfeld Moduli Spaces as Moduli Spaces of $A$-Reciprocal Maps and Consequences for Drinfeld Modular Forms

Abstract

We construct a compactification of the moduli space of Drinfeld modules of rank $r$ and level $N$ as a moduli space of $A$-reciprocal maps. This is closely related to the Satake compactification, but not exactly the same. The construction involves some technical assumptions on $N$ that are satisfied for a cofinal set of ideals $N$. In the special case $A={\mathbb{F}}_q[t]$ and $N=(t^n)$ we obtain a presentation for the graded ideal of Drinfeld cusp forms of level $N$ and all weights and can deduce a dimension formula for the space of cusp forms of any weight. We expect the same results in general, but the proof will require more ideas.

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• Drinfeld modular forms of arbitrary rank, Part I: Analytic Theory
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