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Selmer groups and class groups

Part of: Arithmetic algebraic geometry Algebraic number theory: global fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2014

Kęstutis Česnavičius
Kęstutis Česnavičius*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA email kestutis@math.mit.edu
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Abstract

Let $A$ be an abelian variety over a global field $K$ of characteristic $p\geqslant 0$. If $A$ has nontrivial (respectively full) $K$-rational $l$-torsion for a prime $l\neq p$, we exploit the fppf cohomological interpretation of the $l$-Selmer group $\text{Sel}_{l}\,A$ to bound $\#\text{Sel}_{l}\,A$ from below (respectively 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 ${\it\mu}=0$ conjecture through inequalities, valid when $A(K)[l]\neq 0$, between Iwasawa invariants governing the growth of Selmer groups and class groups in a $\mathbb{Z}_{l}$-extension.

Keywords

Selmer groupclass groupfppf cohomologyIwasawa theory

MSC classification

Primary: 11G10: Abelian varieties of dimension $> 1$
Secondary: 11R23: Iwasawa theory 11R29: Class numbers, class groups, discriminants 11R58: Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields

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Compositio Mathematica , Volume 151 , Issue 3 , March 2015 , pp. 416 - 434
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© The Author 2014 

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