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The spin of prime ideals

Number Theory 2012-10-23 v2

Abstract

Fixing a nontrivial automorphism of a number field K, we associate to ideals in K an invariant (with values in {0,1,-1}) that we call the "spin" and for which the associated L-function does not possess Euler products. We are nevertheless able, using the techniques of bilinear forms, to handle spin value distribution over primes, obtaining stronger results than the analogous ones which follow from the technology of L-functions in its current state. The initial application of our theorem is to the arithmetic statistics of Selmer groups of elliptic curves.

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@article{arxiv.1110.6331,
  title  = {The spin of prime ideals},
  author = {J. B. Friedlander and H. Iwaniec and B. Mazur and K. Rubin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6331},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Minor revisions. To appear in Inventiones Mathematicae

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