Characteristic ideals and Selmer groups
Abstract
Let be an abelian variety defined over a global field of positive characteristic and let be a -extension, unramified outside a finite set of places of . Assuming that all ramified places are totally ramified, we define a pro-characteristic ideal associated to the Pontrjagin dual of the -primary Selmer group of , in order to formulate an Iwasawa Main Conjecture for the non-noetherian commutative Iwasawa algebra (which we also prove for a constant abelian variety). To do this we first show the relation between the characteristic ideals of duals of Selmer groups for a -extension and for any -extension contained in , and then use a limit process.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.2788,
title = {Characteristic ideals and Selmer groups},
author = {Andrea Bandini and Francesc Bars and Ignazio Longhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2788},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, version updated to be compatible with the modifications of arXiv:1310.0680 [math.NT]