Regulators in the Arithmetic of Function Fields

As a natural sequel for the study of $A$-motivic cohomology, initiated in [Gaz], we develop a notion of regulator for rigid analytically trivial Anderson $A$-motives. In accordance with the conjectural number field picture, we define it as the morphism at the level of extension modules induced by the exactness of the Hodge-Pink realization functor. The purpose of this text is twofold: we first prove a finiteness result for $A$-motivic cohomology and, under a weight assumption, we then show that the source and the target of regulators have the same dimension. It came as a surprise to the author that the image of this regulator might not have full rank, preventing the analogue of a renowned conjecture of Beilinson to hold in our setting.Comment: v1->v2: Corrections: removed the mixedness assumption; changed some notations to improve readability; added details; corrected typo