Kolyvagin’s System of Gauss Sums
Kolyvagin’s System of Gauss Sums
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科利瓦金的高斯和系统
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-0457-2_14
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发表时间:
1991
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通讯作者:
K. Rubin
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作者:
K. Rubin
Recently in [1] Kolyvagin introduced a remarkable inductive procedure which improves upon Stickel berger's theorem and results of Thaine [6] on ideal class groups of cyclotomic fields. For every Dirichlet character X modulo a prime p Kolyvagin was able to determine the order of the X-component of the p-part of the ideal class group of QV-cr). These orders were already known from the work of Mazur and Wiles [3], but Kolyvagin's proof is very much simpler. Kolyvagin's method also determines the abelian group structure of these ideal class groups in terms of Stickel berger ideals.The proof divides naturally into two cases, according as to whether the character X is even or odd. When X is even the proof uses cyclotomic units in an infinite family of abelian fields containing Q (Pp); an account of this method and a generalization to Q (Ppoo)(the Mazur-Wiles theorem, Iwawawa's" main conjecture") are given in [4]. When X is odd, the proof relies on Gauss sums in an infinite family of abelian fields containing Q (Pp), as does the proof of Stickel berger's theorem. In this paper we give an exposition of Kolyvagin's results in the case of odd characters, dealing for simplicity only with the field Q (Pp). For the main results see Theorems 4.3 and 4.4.