arXiv · 2505.12779
Determining $t$-motives and dual $t$-motives in Anderson's theory
Abstract
Anderson t-modules are analogs of abelian varieties in positive characteristic. Associated to such a t-module, there are its t-motive and its dual t-motive. When dealing with these objects, several questions occur which one would like to solve algorithmically. For example, for a given t-module one would like to decide whether its t-motive is indeed finitely generated free, and determine a basis. Reversely, for a given object in the category of t-motives one would like to decide whether it is the t-motive associated to a t-module, and determine that t-module. In this article, we positively answer such questions by providing the corresponding algorithms. As it turned out, the main part of all these algorithms stem from a single algorithm in non-commutative algebra, and hence the first part of this article doesn't deal with Anderson's objects at all, but are results on finitely generated modules over skew polynomial rings.
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Andreas Maurischat. 2025-05-19. Determining $t$-motives and dual $t$-motives in Anderson's theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12779
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