The Carlitz
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cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=e997e699aa7c01f2b50b690a10ffdad7" title="Click to view the MathML source">C=Cν,
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=cb0c9d80b1c11cc98be8cd665b054359">, is generated over an algebraically closed field
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=e407d24ac11ce2b50d63676736168a6e"> (which contains a non-discrete locally compact field of positive characteristic
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=10cf7477e6dacc645ca4e4ed543b0108" title="Click to view the MathML source">p>0, i.e.
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=29bc0733ee6f617794c11c6014d06552">,
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=ad8fc94fe5d06e85a22b6d4a7a9eb565" title="Click to view the MathML source">q=pν), by the (power of the)
Frobenius map
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=d28eb0ffe603c363e58a460c8d4c2c97" title="Click to view the MathML source">X=Xν:ffq, and by the
Carlitz derivative cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=d7247c5ad3db200776bcce0924773a1b" title="Click to view the MathML source">Y=Yν. It is proved that the Krull and global dimensions of
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=5956f411a2b188cf3ef1d3746690ed50" title="Click to view the MathML source">C are 2, classifications of simple
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=00f189f25dd1bae5300dc7bee0ff8906" title="Click to view the MathML source">C-modules and ideals are given, there are only
countably many ideals, they commute
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=459ef6d7a120745c183c2814de32911e" title="Click to view the MathML source">(IJ=JI), and each ideal is a unique product of maximal ones. It is a remarkable fact that any simple
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=997416b22980c6ba63566da8441b1aa6" title="Click to view the MathML source">C-module is a sum of eigenspaces of the element
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=d65929d671c66c55ea1ab9ccaa523be2" title="Click to view the MathML source">YX (the set of eigenvalues for
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=f75962e26d0b270181701cddf689a4de" title="Click to view the MathML source">YX is given explicitly for each simple
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=cb5607e37a9c697d5afa8ac4b0fd1b36" title="Click to view the MathML source">C-module). This fact is crucial in finding the group
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=345f10b3752e7042415c108ff17c0b50"> of
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=47f0d47e88c07dc8f93e605dcb5583c7">-algebra automorphisms of
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=cc31b9d236da3927fb8614b67297554e" title="Click to view the MathML source">C and in proving that any two distinct Carlitz rings are not isomorphic (
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=755e7506f0cf10335a6a77c260562d12" title="Click to view the MathML source">CνCμ if
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=02eda5c0b4ae8f0513a453e60d24dabc" title="Click to view the MathML source">ν≠μ). The centre of
cct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=85e48a12374c09933d4bea6b633f24e7" title="Click to view the MathML source">C is found explicitly, it is a UFD that contains
countably many elements.