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Vanishing of eigenspaces and cyclotomic fields

Number Theory 2021-02-03 v2

Abstract

We use a result of Thaine to give an alternative proof of the fact that, for a prime p>3 congruent to 3 modulo 4, the component e_{(p+1)/2} of the p-Sylow subgroup of the ideal class group of \mathbb Q(\zeta_{p}) is trivial.

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@article{arxiv.math/0412242,
  title  = {Vanishing of eigenspaces and cyclotomic fields},
  author = {Robert Osburn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0412242},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, minor corrections made, to appear in the International Mathematics Research Notices