Selmer groups and class groups

DOI10.1112/S0010437X14007441MaRDI QIDQ5248723zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kęstutis Česnavičius

Publication date 8 May 2015

Published in Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4261

zbMATH Keywords

class groupfppf cohomologyIwasawa theorySelmer group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abelian varieties of dimension (> 1) (11G10) Iwasawa theory (11R23) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58)

Abstract: Let $A$ be an abelian variety over a global field $K$ of characteristic $pge0$. If $A$ has nontrivial (resp. full) $K$-rational $l$-torsion for a prime $leqp$, we exploit the fppf cohomological interpretation of the $l$-Selmer group $mathrm{Sel}_{l}A$ to bound $$ from below (resp. above) in terms of the cardinality of the $l$-torsion subgroup of the ideal class group of $K$. Applied over families of finite extensions of $K$, the bounds relate the growth of Selmer groups and class groups. For function fields, this technique proves the unboundedness of $l$-ranks of class groups of quadratic extensions of every $K$ containing a fixed finite field $mathbb{F}_{p^n}$ (depending on $l$). For number fields, it suggests a new approach to the Iwasawa $mu=0$ conjecture through inequalities, valid when $A(K)[l]eq0$, between Iwasawa invariants governing the growth of Selmer groups and class groups in a $mathbb{Z}_l$-extension.

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