We present a study of M dwarfs discovered in a large area, multicolor survey.
We employ a combination of morphological and color criteria to select M dwarfs
to a limiting magnitude in V of 22, the deepest such ground-based survey for M
dwarfs to date. We solve for the vertical disk stellar density law and use the
resulting parameters to derive the M dwarf luminosity and mass functions from
this sample. We find the stellar luminosity function peaks at M_V = 12 and
declines thereafter. Our derived mass function for stars with M < 0.6 M_sun is
inconsistent with a Salpeter function at the 3 sigma level; instead, we find
the mass function is relatively flat for 0.6 M_sun > M > 0.1 M_sun.Comment: Accepted for publication in AJ. 19 pages including 4 embedded
postscript figures (AASTEX