Newton slopes for twisted Artin--Schreier--Witt Towers

Abstract: We fix a monic polynomial $f(x) \in \mathbb F_q[x]$ over a finite field of characteristic $p$ of degree relatively prime to $p$. Let $a\mapsto \omega(a)$ be the Teichm\"uller lift of $\mathbb F_q$, and let $\chi:\mathbb{Z}\to \mathbb C_p^\times$ be a finite character of $\mathbb Z_p$. The $L$-function associated to the polynomial $f$ and the so-called twisted character $\omega^u\times \chi$ is denoted by $L_f(\omega^u,\chi,s)$. We prove that, when the conductor of the character is large enough, the $p$-adic Newton slopes of this $L$-function form arithmetic progressions.