Is there a Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for Dedekind zeta functions?
Number Theory
2026-04-02 v3
Abstract
A Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for number fields would assert that for some vector space functorially attached to . Presently there is no natural candidate for the 's. However, assuming is of a cohomological nature and assuming a conjecture of Serre on the vanishing order of at we show that such functors (with natural extra structures) exist and are all isomorphic. Their common automorphism group is -torsion and abelian.
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@article{arxiv.2504.15767,
title = {Is there a Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for Dedekind zeta functions?},
author = {Christopher Deninger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15767},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Final version. To appear in Journal of Number Theory