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Cohen Lenstra Heuristics for \'Etale Group Schemes and Symplectic Pairings

Number Theory 2019-03-27 v1

Abstract

We generalize the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics over function fields to \'{e}tale group schemes GG (with the classical case of abelian groups corresponding to constant group schemes). By using the results of Ellenberg-Venkatesh-Westerland, we make progress towards the proof of these heuristics. Moreover, by keeping track of the image of the Weil-pairing as an element of 2G(1)\wedge^2G(1), we formulate more refined heuristics which nicely explain the deviation from the usual Cohen-Lenstra heuristics for abelian \ell-groups in cases where q1\ell\mid q-1; the nature of this failure was suggested already in the works of Garton, EVW, and others. On the purely large random matrix side, we provide a natural model which has the correct moments, and we conjecture that these moments uniquely determine a limiting probability measure.

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@article{arxiv.1610.09304,
  title  = {Cohen Lenstra Heuristics for \'Etale Group Schemes and Symplectic Pairings},
  author = {Michael Lipnowski and Jacob Tsimerman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09304},
  year   = {2019}
}