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Curves, dynamical systems, and weighted point counting. (English) Zbl 1295.11124

Summary: Suppose \(X\) is a (smooth projective irreducible algebraic) curve over a finite field \(k\). Counting the number of points on \(X\) over all finite field extensions of \(k\) will not determine the curve uniquely. Actually, a famous theorem of J. Tate [Invent. Math. 2, 134–144 (1966; Zbl 0147.20303)] implies that two such curves over \(k\) have the same zeta function (i.e., the same number of points over all extensions of \(k\)) if and only if their corresponding Jacobians are isogenous. We remedy this situation by showing that if, instead of just the zeta function, all Dirichlet \(L\)-series of the two curves are equal via an isomorphism of their Dirichlet character groups, then the curves are isomorphic up to “Frobenius twists”, i.e., up to automorphisms of the ground field. Because \(L\)-series count points on a curve in a “weighted” way, we see that weighted point counting determines a curve. In a sense, the result solves the analogue of the isospectrality problem for curves over finite fields (also know as the “arithmetic equivalence problem”): It states that a curve is determined by “spectral” data, namely, eigenvalues of the Frobenius operator of \(k\) acting on the cohomology groups of all \(\ell\)-adic sheaves corresponding to Dirichlet characters. The method of proof is to show that this is equivalent to the respective class field theories of the curves being isomorphic as dynamical systems, in a sense that we make precise.

MSC:

11R37 Class field theory
37P25 Dynamical systems over finite ground fields
37C30 Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc.
11M38 Zeta and \(L\)-functions in characteristic \(p\)

Citations:

Zbl 0147.20303
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