Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Drinfeld's upper half-spaces over non-archimedean local fields are the founding examples of the theory of period domains. In this talk we consider analogs of Drinfeld's upper half-spaces over finite fields. They are open subvarieties of a projective space. We show that their automorphism group is the group of automorphisms of the ambient projective space. This is a problem in birational geometry, which we solve using tools in non-archimedean analytic geometry.