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Generic Newton polygon for exponential sums in two variables with triangular base
- Ren, Rufei
- Advisor(s): Rubin, Karl;
- Xiao, Liang
Abstract
Let $p$ be a prime number. Every two-variable polynomial $f(x_1, x_2)$ over a finite field of characteristic $p$ defines an Artin--Schreier--Witt tower of surfaces whose Galois group is isomorphic to $\mathscr{Z}_p$.
Our goal of this paper is to study the Newton polygon of the $L$-functions associated to a finite character of $\mathscr{Z}_p$ and a generic polynomial whose convex hull is a fixed triangle $\Delta$. We denote this polygon by $\GNP(\Delta)$. We prove a lower bound of $\GNP(\Delta)$, which we call the improved Hodge polygon $\IHP(\Delta)$, and we conjecture that $\GNP(\Delta)$ and $\IHP(\Delta)$ are the same. We show that if $\GNP(\Delta)$ and $\IHP(\Delta)$ coincide at a certain point, then they coincide at infinitely many points.
When $\Delta$ is an isosceles right triangle with vertices $(0,0)$, $(0, d)$ and $(d, 0)$ such that $d$ is not divisible by $p$ and that the residue of $p$ modulo $d$ is small relative to $d$, we prove that $\GNP(\Delta)$ and $\IHP(\Delta)$ coincide at infinitely many points. As a corollary, we deduce that the slopes of $\GNP(\Delta)$ roughly form an arithmetic progression with increasing multiplicities.
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