An effective Chebotarev density theorem for families of number fields, with an application to -torsion in class groups

DOI10.1007/S00222-019-00915-ZzbMATH Open1445.11129arXiv1709.09637OpenAlexW2972550400MaRDI QIDQ2290965FDOQ2290965

Lillian Beatrix Pierce, Melanie Matchett Wood, Caroline L. Turnage-Butterbaugh

Publication date: 29 January 2020

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a new effective Chebotarev density theorem for Galois extensions $L/mathbbQ$ that allows one to count small primes (even as small as an arbitrarily small power of the discriminant of $L$); this theorem holds for the Galois closures of "almost all" number fields that lie in an appropriate family of field extensions. Previously, applying Chebotarev in such small ranges required assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis. The error term in this new Chebotarev density theorem also avoids the effect of an exceptional zero of the Dedekind zeta function of $L$, without assuming GRH. We give many different "appropriate families," including families of arbitrarily large degree. To do this, we first prove a new effective Chebotarev density theorem that requires a zero-free region of the Dedekind zeta function. Then we prove that almost all number fields in our families yield such a zero-free region. The innovation that allows us to achieve this is a delicate new method for controlling zeroes of certain families of non-cuspidal $L$-functions. This builds on, and greatly generalizes the applicability of, work of Kowalski and Michel on the average density of zeroes of a family of cuspidal $L$-functions. A surprising feature of this new method, which we expect will have independent interest, is that we control the number of zeroes in the family of $L$-functions by bounding the number of certain associated fields with fixed discriminant. As an application of the new Chebotarev density theorem, we prove the first nontrivial upper bounds for $ell$-torsion in class groups, for all integers $ellgeq1$, applicable to infinite families of fields of arbitrarily large degree.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09637

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zbMATH Keywords

Galois groupsinertiaramification\(L\)-functionsclass groupsDedekind zeta functionsChebotarev theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Zeta functions and (L)-functions of number fields (11R42) Density theorems (11R45) Applications of automorphic functions and forms to multiplicative problems (11N75)

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