Published online by Cambridge University Press:Â 01 December 2015
We describe an algorithm for finding the coefficients of $F(X)$ modulo powers of
$p$ , where
$p\neq 2$ is a prime number and
$F(X)$ is the power series associated to the zeta function of Kubota and Leopoldt. We next calculate the 5-adic and 7-adic
${\it\lambda}$ -invariants attached to those cubic extensions
$K/\mathbb{Q}$ with cyclic Galois group
${\mathcal{A}}_{3}$ (up to field discriminant
${<}10^{7}$ ), and also tabulate the class number of
$K(e^{2{\it\pi}i/p})$ for
$p=5$ and
$p=7$ . If the
${\it\lambda}$ -invariant is greater than zero, we then determine all the zeros for the corresponding branches of the
$p$ -adic
$L$ -function and deduce
${\rm\Lambda}$ -monogeneity for the class group tower over the cyclotomic
$\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ -extension of
$K$ .
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