On the invariant factors of class groups in towers of number fields

DOI10.4153/CJM-2017-032-9MaRDI QIDQ4609544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Farshid Hajir, Christian Maire

Publication date 4 April 2018

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09026

zbMATH Keywords

ideal class groupclass field towerBrauer-Siegel theorempro-p groupp-adic analytic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Class field theory (11R37) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Abstract: For a finite abelian p-group A of rank d, we define its (logarithmic) mean exponent to be the base-p logarithm of the d-th root of its cardinality. We study the behavior of the mean exponent of p-class groups in towers of number fields. By combining techniques from group theory with the Tsfasman-Valdut generalization of the Brauer-Siegel Theorem, we construct infinite tamely ramified towers in which the mean exponent of class groups remains bounded. Several explicit examples with p=2 are given. We introduce an invariant M(G) attached to a finitely generated FAb pro-p group G which measures the asymptotic growth of the mean exponent of abelianizations of subgroups of index n with n going to infinity. When G=Gal(L/K), M(G) measures the asymptotic behavior of the mean exponent of class groups in L/K. We compare and contrast the behavior of this invariant in analytic versus non-analytic groups. We exploit the interplay of group-theoretical and number-theoretical perspectives on this invariant and explore some open questions that arise as a result, which may be of independent interest in group theory.

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