
From the pioneering work of Deuring one knows that there is an intimate relationship between elliptic curves in characteristic \(p\) and the arithmetic of the (definite-quaternion) division algebra \(H(p)\). Deuring's results were based on the class number formula of Eichler whose original proof was analytic. However, a geometric proof may be given by using the 1-1 correspondence between supersingular elliptic curves and left ideal classes in a maximal order in \(H(p)\). In this paper, the author carries out a similar program for function fields using supersingular Drinfeld modules. One obtains explicit expressions for certain class numbers as well as a ``mass'' formula.
Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields, maximal orders, function fields, Article, 510.mathematics, division algebra, Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions, supersingular Drinfeld modules, Drinfel'd modules; higher-dimensional motives, etc., mass formula, class numbers
Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields, maximal orders, function fields, Article, 510.mathematics, division algebra, Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions, supersingular Drinfeld modules, Drinfel'd modules; higher-dimensional motives, etc., mass formula, class numbers
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