Non-openness of v-adic Galois representation for A-motives

Abstract

Drinfeld-modules and $A$-motives are the function field analogous of elliptic curves and abelian varieties. For the latter one can construct the $l$-adic Galois representation and can ask if its image is open. For Drinfeld-modules this question was answered by Pink and his coauthors. We clarify the rank one case for $A$-motives and show that the image of Galois is open if and only if the virtual dimension is prime to the characteristic of the ground field.