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Stark's question and a refinement of Brumer's conjecture extrapolated to the function field case
We show that the extrapolation to the case of global fields of characteristic p of a question posed by Stark in 1980, regarding abelian L-functions of order of vanishing 2 at s = 0, has a negative answer. We provide links between various versions of Stark's question and a natural …