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Add comments on of Potemine's j-invariants
We believe there was an ambiguity between our naming of j-invariants, basic j-invariants and jk-invariants, as we follow Potemine's convention, which differs from Papikian's. Consequently, we remove the ambiguity in a note in the docstring.
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src/doc/en/reference/references/index.rst

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https://eudml.org/doc/121696
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.. [Pap2023] Mihran Papikian, *Drinfeld modules*.
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Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 206,
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Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2023.
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.. [PALP] Maximilian Kreuzer, Harald Skarke: "PALP: A Package for
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Analyzing Lattice Polytopes with Applications to Toric
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Geometry" omput.Phys.Commun. 157 (2004) 87-106

src/sage/rings/function_field/drinfeld_modules/drinfeld_module.py

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:meth:`basic_j_invariant_parameters` for computing the list of
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all basic `j`-invariant parameters.
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.. NOTE::
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In [Pap2023]_, Papikian follows a slightly different
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convention:
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- His `j`-invariants (see Definition 3.8.7) correspond to
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our basic `j`-invariants, as defined above.
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- His *basic* `j`-invariant (see Example 3.8.10) correspond
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to our `j_k`-invariants, as implemented in
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:meth:`jk_invariants`.
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We chose to follow Potemine's convention, as he introduced
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those objects in [Pot1998]_. Theorem 2.2 of [Pot1998]_ or
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Theorem 3.8.11 of [Pap2023]_ assert that two Drinfeld
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`\mathbb F_q[T]`-modules over `K` are isomorphic over the
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separable closure of `K` if and only if their basic
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`j`-invariants (as implemented here) coincide for any
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well-defined couple of tuples `((k_1, k_2, \ldots, k_n),
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(d_1, d_2, \ldots, d_n, d_r))`, .
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INPUT:
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- ``parameter`` (tuple or list, integer or NoneType; default:
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OUTPUT: the `j`-invariant of ``self`` for the given parameter.
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REFERENCE:
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The notion of basic `j`-invariant was introduced by Potemine in
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[Pot1998]_.
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EXAMPLES::
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sage: Fq = GF(25)

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