New criteria for Vandiver's conjecture using Gauss sums -- heuristics and numerical experiments

DOI10.1007/S12044-020-00561-ZzbMATH Open1448.11194arXiv1808.03443OpenAlexW3030820519WikidataQ123072291 ScholiaQ123072291MaRDI QIDQ2183151FDOQ2183151

Georges Gras

Publication date: 26 May 2020

Published in: Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The link between Vandiver's conjecture and Gauss sums is well known since the papers of Iwasawa (1975), Thaine (1995-1999) and Angl{`e}s-Nuccio (2010). This conjecture is required in many subjects and we shall give such examples of relevant references. In this paper, we recall our interpretation of Vandiver's conjecture in terms of minus part of the torsion of the Galois group of the maximal abelian p-ramified pro-p-extension of the pth cyclotomic field (1984). Then we provide a specific use of Gauss sums of characters of order p of F_ell^x and prove new criteria for Vandiver's conjecture to hold (Theorem 1.2(a) using both the sets of exponents of p-irregularity and of p-primarity of suitable twists of the Gauss sums, and Theorem 1.2(b) which does not need the knowledge of Bernoulli numbers or cyclotomic units). We propose in S5.2 new heuristics showing that any counterexample to the conjecture leads to excessive constraints modulo p on the above twists as ell varies and suggests analytical approaches to evidence. We perform numerical experiments to strengthen our arguments in direction of the very probable truth of Vandiver's conjecture. All the calculations are given with their PARI/GP programs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03443

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zbMATH Keywords

class field theoryGauss sumsJacobi sumsKummer theory\(p\)-ramificationVandiver's conjecturecyclotomic field of \(p\)-th roots of unity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Class field theory (11R37) Gauss and Kloosterman sums; generalizations (11L05) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18)

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• The Vandiver conjecture and a new conjecture on the distribution of irregular primes

Uses Software

• PARI/GP

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