The canonical representation of the Drinfeld curve

Abstract If is a smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field and is a group of automorphisms of , the canonical representation of is given by the induced ‐linear action of on the vector space of holomorphic differentials on . Computing it is still an open problem in general when the cover is wildly ramified. In this paper, we fix a prime power , we consider the Drinfeld curve, that is, the curve given by the equation over together with its standard action by , and decompose as a direct sum of indecomposable representations of , thus solving the aforementioned problem in this case.