Developing an idea of Carlitz, I show how one can describe explicitly the maximal abelian extension of the rational function field over F, (the finite field of q elements) and the action of the idèle class group via the reciprocity law homomorphism. The theory is closely analogous to the classical theory of cyclotomic extensions of the rational numbers.
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