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Global Units Modulo Circular Units: Descent Without Iwasawa’s Main Conjecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jean-Robert Belliard
Jean-Robert Belliard*
Affiliation:
Université de Franche-Comté, Laboratoire de mathématiques UMR 6623, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besanc¸on cedex, France, [email protected]
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Abstract

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Iwasawa's classical asymptotical formula relates the orders of the $p$-parts ${{X}_{n}}$ of the ideal class groups along a ${{\mathbb{Z}}_{p}}$-extension ${{F}_{\infty }}/F$ of a number field $F$ to Iwasawa structural invariants $\lambda $ and $\mu $ attached to the inverse limit ${{X}_{\infty }}=\underleftarrow{\lim }\,{{X}_{n}}$. It relies on “good” descent properties satisfied by ${{X}_{n}}$. If $F$ is abelian and ${{F}_{\infty }}$ is cyclotomic, it is known that the $p$-parts of the orders of the global units modulo circular units ${{U}_{n}}/{{C}_{n}}$ are asymptotically equivalent to the $p$-parts of the ideal class numbers. This suggests that these quotients ${{U}_{n}}/{{C}_{n}}$, so to speak unit class groups, also satisfy good descent properties. We show this directly, i.e., without using Iwasawa's Main Conjecture.

Keywords

11R23
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , 01 June 2009 , pp. 518 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2009

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