$t$-Motives

by Gebhard Böckle

This volume contains research and survey articles on Drinfeld modules, Anderson $t$-modules and $t$-motives. Much material that had not been easily accessible in the literature is presented here, for example the cohomology theories and Pink's theory of Hodge structures attached to Drinfeld modules and $t$-motives. Also included are survey articles on the function field analogue of Fontaine's theory of $p$-adic crystalline Galois representations and on transcendence methods over function fields, encompassing the theories of Frobenius difference equations, automata theory, and Mahler's...