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$p$-Selmer growth in extensions of degree $p$

Number Theory 2017-06-14 v3

Abstract

There is a known analogy between growth questions for class groups and for Selmer groups. If pp is a prime, then the pp-torsion of the ideal class group grows unboundedly in Z/pZ\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}-extensions of a fixed number field KK, so one expects the same for the pp-Selmer group of a nonzero abelian variety over KK. This Selmer group analogue is known in special cases and we prove it in general, along with a version for arbitrary global fields.

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@article{arxiv.1408.1151,
  title  = {$p$-Selmer growth in extensions of degree $p$},
  author = {Kestutis Cesnavicius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1151},
  year   = {2017}
}

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19 pages; final version, to appear in Journal of the London Mathematical Society