We define the Heegner--Drinfeld cycle on the moduli stack of Drinfeld Shtukas of rank two with r-modifications for an even integer r. We prove an identity between (1) The r-th central derivative of the quadratic base change L-function associated to an everywhere unramified cuspidal automorphic representation π of PGL2; (2) The self-intersection number of the π-isotypic component of the Heegner--Drinfeld cycle. This identity can be viewed as a function-field analog of the Waldspurger and Gross--Zagier formula for higher derivatives of L-functions.

The theory of Weierstrass points and gap sequences for linear series on smooth curves is generalized to smooth families of curves with geometrically irreducible fibers, and over an arbitrary base scheme.

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We establish a parametric extension$h$-principle for overtwisted contact structures on manifolds of all dimensions, which is the direct generalization of the 3-dimensional result from [12]. It implies, in particular, that any closed manifold admits a contact structure in any given homotopy class of almost contact structures.