Asymptotic growth of Iwasawa invariants in Noncommutative towers of number fields

Abstract: Let

p

be an odd prime,

F

be a number field and consider a uniform infinite pro-

p

extension

F_{i} n f t y

of

F

with Galois group

G = G a l (F_{i} n f t y / F)

. Let [G=G_0supset G_1supsetdots supset G_nsupset G_{n+1}supset dots] be the descending

p

central series of

G

and set

F_{n} : = F_{i} n f t y^{G_{n}}

. Assume that

G

is uniform and that

F_{i} n f t y

contains the cyclotomic

m a t h b b Z_{p}

-extension of

F

. Denote by

A_{n}

the

p

-primary part of the class group of the cyclotomic

m a t h b b Z_{p}

-extension of

F_{n}

. The

l a m b d a

-invariant of

F_{n}

coincides with the corank of

A_{n}

as a

m a t h b b Z_{p}

-module. Assume that the Iwasawa

m u

-invariant of the cyclotomic

m a t h b b Z_{p}

-extension of

F

equal to

0

. Then, the

m u

-invariant of the cyclotomic

m a t h b b Z_{p}

-extension of

F_{n}

is

0

as well and

A_{n}

is isomorphic to

l e f t (m a t h b b Q_{p} / m a t h b b Z_{p} i g h t)^{l a m b d a_{n}}

. We study the asymptotic growth of

l a m b d a_{n}

as

n

goes to

i n f t y

.

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