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Reflection principles for class groups

Number Theory 2016-05-17 v1

Abstract

We present several new examples of reflection principles which apply to both class groups of number fields and picard groups of of curves over P1/Fp\mathbb{P}^{1}/\mathbb{F}_{p}. This proves a conjecture of Lemmermeyer about equality of 2-rank in subfields of A4A_{4}, up to a constant not depending on the discriminant in the number field case, and exactly in the function field case. More generally we prove similar relations for subfields of a Galois extension with group GG for the cases when GG is S3S_{3}, S4S_{4}, A4A_{4}, D2lD_{2l} and Z/lZZ/rZ\mathbb{Z}/l\mathbb{Z}\rtimes\mathbb{Z}/r\mathbb{Z}. The method of proof uses sheaf cohomology on 1-dimensional schemes, which reduces to Galois module computations.

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@article{arxiv.1605.04371,
  title  = {Reflection principles for class groups},
  author = {Jack Klys},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.04371},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages

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