On the image of $p$-adic logarithm on principal units
Abstract
The -adic logarithm appears in many places in number theory. Hence having a good description of the image of the -adic logarithm could be useful, and in particular, to figure out the image of , where is an algebraic extension of and its maximal ideal. If the ramification index of is strictly less than then it is well known that the -adic logarithm is a bijection of onto . If the ramification index is equal or greater than than the -adic logarithm is no more a bijection and the situation is more complicated. Our main result is the computation of in two cases: \begin{enumerate} \item[] for , with , totally ramified -cyclotomic extension of (ramification index equal ) \item[] for a quadratic extension of (ramification index equal 1, 2). \end{enumerate}
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@article{arxiv.1904.09850,
title = {On the image of $p$-adic logarithm on principal units},
author = {Mabud Ali Sarkar and Absos Ali Shaikh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09850},
year = {2025}
}
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32 pages, final version, we revised the paper with adding motivations, references, and applications of the results. More appropriate title given. Comments are welcome!