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On Stark elements of arbitrary weight and their $p$-adic families

Number Theory 2016-07-25 v1

Abstract

We develop a detailed arithmetic theory related to special values at arbitrary integers of the Artin LL-series of linear characters. To do so we define canonical generalized Stark elements of arbitrary `rank' and `weight', thereby extending the classical theory of Rubin-Stark elements. We then formulate an extension to arbitrary weight of the refined version of the Rubin-Stark Conjecture that we studied in an earlier article and also show that generalized Stark elements constitute a pp-adic family by formulating precise conjectural congruence relations between elements of differing weights. We prove both of these conjectures in several important cases.

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@article{arxiv.1607.06607,
  title  = {On Stark elements of arbitrary weight and their $p$-adic families},
  author = {David Burns and Masato Kurihara and Takamichi Sano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06607},
  year   = {2016}
}