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A refined study of Mazur's Eisenstein theory

Number Theory 2019-09-04 v2

Abstract

We apply the methods of Fukaya, Kato and Sharifi to refine Mazur's study of the Eisenstein ideal. Given prime numbers NN and p5p\geq 5 such that pφ(N)p\mid \varphi(N), we study the quotient of the cohomology group of modular curve X0(N)X_{0}(N) by the square of the Eisenstein ideal. We study two invariants b,cb,c attached to this quotient and compute cc. We propose a conjecture about the invariant bb which relates the structure of the ray class group of conductor NN to the modular symbols of X0(N)X_{0}(N). Assuming this conjecture, We compute the invariant bb.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05982,
  title  = {A refined study of Mazur's Eisenstein theory},
  author = {Jun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05982},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

major revision to improve exposition, change the title and rewrite the introduction