An alternative approach to Kida and Ferrero's computations of Iwasawa -invariants

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2013.11.014MaRDI QIDQ2017179zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jordan Schettler

Publication date 25 June 2014

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1727

zbMATH Keywords

Iwasawa theoryKida's formulaRiemann-Hurwitz formulaFermat primeimaginary quadratic number fieldlambda invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Iwasawa theory (11R23) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Galois cohomology (11R34) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18)

Abstract: We prove a slight generalization of Iwasawa's `Riemann-Hurwitz' formula for number fields and use it to generalize Ferrero's and Kida's well-known computations of Iwasawa lambda-invariants for the cyclotomic Z_2-extensions of imaginary quadratic number fields. In particular, we show that if p is a Fermat prime, then similar computations of Iwasawa lambda-invariants hold for certain imaginary quadratic extensions of the unique subfield k of Q(zeta_{p^2}) such that [k:Q] = p. In fact, we actually prove more by explicitly computing cohomology groups of principal ideals. The computation of lambda invariants obtained is a special case of a much more general result concerning relative lambda invariants for cyclotomic Z_2-extensions of CM number fields due to Yuji Kida. However, the approach used here significantly differs from that of Kida, and the intermediate computations of cohomology groups found here do not hold in Kida's more general setting.

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