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Construction of elliptic $\mathfrak{p}$-units

Number Theory 2018-06-07 v1

Abstract

Let L/kL/k be a finite abelian extension of an imaginary quadratic number field kk. Let p\mathfrak{p} denote a prime ideal of Ok\mathcal{O}_k lying over the rational prime pp. We assume that p\mathfrak{p} splits completely in L/kL/k and that pp does not divide the class number of kk. If pp is split in k/Qk/\mathbb{Q} the first named author has adapted a construction of Solomon to obtain elliptic p\mathfrak{p}-units in LL. In this paper we generalize this construction to the non-split case and obtain in this way a pair of elliptic p\mathfrak{p}-units depending on a choice of generators of a certain Iwasawa algebra (which here is of rank 2). In our main result we express the p\mathfrak{p}-adic valuations of these p\mathfrak{p}-units in terms of the pp-adic logarithm of an explicit elliptic unit. The crucial input for the proof of our main result is the computation of the constant term of a suitable Coleman power series, where we rely on recent work of T. Seiriki.

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@article{arxiv.1806.02244,
  title  = {Construction of elliptic $\mathfrak{p}$-units},
  author = {Werner Bley and Martin Hofer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.02244},
  year   = {2018}
}

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26 pages

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