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Normes d'id\'eaux dans la tour cyclotomique et conjecture de Greenberg

Number Theory 2021-08-06 v3

Abstract

Pre-print of a publication in "Annales math\'ematiques du Qu{\'e}bec". Let kk be a totally real number field and let kk_\infty be its cyclotomic Zp\mathbb{Z}_p-extension for pp totally split in kk. This text completes our article entitled: "Approche pp-adique de la conjecture de Greenberg pour les corps totalement r\'eels" (Annales Math\'ematiques Blaise Pascal 2017), by means of heuristics on the pp-adic behavior of the norms, in kn/kk_n/k, of the ideals in kk_\infty ; indeed, this conjecture (on the nullity of the invariants λ\lambda et μ\mu of Iwasawa) depends of images in the torsion group Tk{\mathcal T}_k of the Galois group of the maximal abelian pp-ramified pro-pp-extension of kk, thus of Artin symbols in a finite extension F/kF/k obtained by Galois descent of Tk{\mathcal T}_k. An assumption of distribution of these norms implies λ=μ=0\lambda=\mu=0. Several statistics and numerical examples in the quadratic case confirm the probable exactness of such properties which constitute the fundamental obstruction for a proof of Greenberg's conjecture in the sole context of Iwasawa's theory.

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@article{arxiv.1706.08784,
  title  = {Normes d'id\'eaux dans la tour cyclotomique et conjecture de Greenberg},
  author = {Georges Gras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.08784},
  year   = {2021}
}

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in French, Completes with numerical computations and heuristics our previous paper arXiv:1611.09592 on Greenberg's conjecture. Annales math{\'e}matiques du Quebec, A para{\^i}tre