Massey products in the \'etale cohomology of number fields

arXiv2207.06353MaRDI QIDQ6404882FDOQ6404882

Authors: Eric Ahlqvist, Magnus Carlson 

Publication date: 13 July 2022

Abstract: We give formulas for 3-fold Massey products in the 'etale cohomology of the ring of integers of a number field and use these to find the first known examples of imaginary quadratic fields with class group of $p$-rank two possessing an infinite $p$-class field tower, where $p$ is an odd prime. Furthermore, a necessary and sufficient condition, in terms of class groups of $p$-extensions, for the vanishing of 3-fold Massey products is given. As a consequence, we give an elementary and sufficient condition for the infinitude of class field towers of imaginary quadratic fields. We also disprove McLeman's $(3,3)$-conjecture. Lastly, we relate the vanishing of Massey products to the existence of Galois representations of $G_{mathbbQ,S}$ which realize an unexpectedly large class group for certain extensions of a quadratic imaginary number field.

Has companion code repository: https://github.com/ericahlqvist/massey

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Galois cohomology (11R34)

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