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Prime Decomposition and the Iwasawa mu-invariant

Number Theory 2016-01-19 v1

Abstract

For Γ=Zp\Gamma=\mathbb{Z}_p, Iwasawa was the first to construct Γ\Gamma-extensions over number fields with arbitrarily large μ\mu-invariants. In this work, we investigate other uniform pro-pp groups which are realizable as Galois groups of towers of number fields with arbitrarily large μ\mu-invariant. For instance, we prove that this is the case if pp is a regular prime and Γ\Gamma is a uniform pro-pp group admitting a fixed-point-free automorphism of odd order dividing p1p-1. Both in Iwasawa's work, and in the present one, the size of the μ\mu-invariant appears to be intimately related to the existence of primes that split completely in the tower.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04195,
  title  = {Prime Decomposition and the Iwasawa mu-invariant},
  author = {Farshid Hajir and Christian Maire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04195},
  year   = {2016}
}