% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @PHDTHESIS{Maier:52331, author = {Maier, Annette}, othercontributors = {Hartmann, Julia}, title = {{D}ifference equations with semisimple {G}alois groups in positive characteristic}, address = {Aachen}, publisher = {Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University}, reportid = {RWTH-CONV-114564}, pages = {135 S.}, year = {2011}, note = {Prüfungsjahr: 2011. - Publikationsjahr: 2012; Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2011}, abstract = {Let F be a field with an automorphism sigma on F. A (linear) difference equation over F is an equation of the form sigma(y)=Ay with A in $GL_n(F)$ and y a vector consisting of n indeterminates. There is the notion of a Picard-Vessiot ring which is in some sense a "smallest" difference ring extension R of F such that there exists a full set of solutions with entries in R to the given difference equation. If there exists a Picard-Vessiot ring, one can assign a difference Galois group to the Picard-Vessiot ring, which turns out to be a linear algebraic group (in the scheme theoretic sense). Let F = $F_q(s,t)$ with sigma defined to be the automorphism that fixes $F_q(t)$ pointwise and maps s to $s^q.$ The main result of this thesis is that the following groups occur as difference Galois groups over F: the special linear groups $SL_n,$ the symplectic groups $Sp_2d,$ the special orthogonal groups $SO_n$ (here we have to assume q odd), and the Dickson group $G_2$ (in both cases q odd and even). We give explicit difference equations for all of these groups. As another result, we show that every semisimple and simply-connected group G that is defined over $F_q$ occurs as a difference Galois group over $F_(q^i)(s,t)$ for some i, where now $sigma(s)=s^(q^i).$ Let $F_q(s)'$ denote an algebraic closure of $F_q(s).$ We can lift our difference equations from $F_q(s,t)$ to $F_q(s)'(t)$ using the fact that all of our constructed Galois groups are connected. As a result we obtain rigid analytically trivial pre-t-motives with the same Galois groups. The category of rigid analytically trivial pre-t-motives contains the category of t-motives, which occurs in the arithmetic of function fields.}, keywords = {Lineare Differenzengleichung (SWD) / Frobenius-Endomorphismus (SWD) / Galois-Theorie (SWD) / Galois-Gruppe (SWD)}, cin = {115210 / 110000}, ddc = {510}, cid = {$I:(DE-82)115210_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)110000_20140620$}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11}, urn = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-opus-39092}, url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/52331}, }