Special values of Abelian \(L\)-functions at \(s=0\) (Q1019835)

The purpose of Stark's conjectures is to extract information on arithmetic invariants of global field extensions \(K/k\) from special values of the associated Artin \(L\)-functions. \textit{H. M. Stark}'s original integral conjecture [Adv. Math. 35, 197--235 (1980; Zbl 0475.12018)] predicted an arithmetic formula for the first derivative of an abelian \(S\)-imprimitive \(L\)-function at \(s=0\) under the presence in the set \(S\) of primes whose Euler factors are missing of a distinguished prime \(\nu_0\) which splits completely in \(K/k\). \textit{K. Rubin} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 46, No. 1, 33--62 (1996; Zbl 0834.11044)] presented a conjecture which extended Stark's to the \(r\)th derivative under the presence of \(r\) splitting primes in \(S\). The aim of this work is to formulate and provide evidence for a conjecture in the spirit of and extending the Rubin-Stark conjectures to the most general (abelian) setting: arbitrary order of vanishing abelian imprimitive \(L\)-functions, regardless of their type of imprimitivity.