The `Congruence Conjecture' was developed by the second author in a previous paper. It provides a conjectural explicit reciprocity law for a certain element associated to an abelian extension of a totally real number field whose existence is predicted by earlier conjectures of Rubin and Stark. The first aim of the present paper is to design and apply techniques to investigate the Congruence Conjecture numerically. We then present complete verifications of the conjecture in 48 varied cases with real quadratic base fields.
In this article, we study the p-ordinary Iwasawa theory of the (conjectural) Rubin-Stark elements defined over abelian extensions of a CM field F and develop a rank-g Euler/Kolyvagin system machinery (where 2g is the degree of F), refining and generalizing Perrin-Riou's theory and the author's prior work. This has several important arithmetic consequences: Using the recent results of Hida and Hsieh on the CM main conjectures, we prove a natural extension of a theorem of Yager for the CM field F, where we relate the Rubin-Stark elements to the several-variable Katz p-adic L-function. Furthermor…
Let $K$ be a totally real number field of degree $r$. Let $K_{\infty}$ denote the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-extension of $K$ and let $L_{\infty}$ be a finite extension of $K_{\infty}$, abelian over $K$. The goal of this paper is to compare the characteristic ideal of the $χ$-quotient of the projective limit of the narrow class groups to the $χ$-quotient of the projective limit of the $r$-th exterior power of totally positive units modulo a subgroup of Rubin-Stark units, for some $\overline{\mathbb{Q}_{2}}$-irreducible characters $χ$ of $\mathrm{Gal}(L_{\infty}/K_{\infty})$.
Let $K$ be a totally real number field of degree $r=[K:\mathbb{Q}]$ and let $p$ be an odd rational prime. Let $K_{\infty}$ denote the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$-extension of $K$ and let $L_{\infty}$ be a finite extension of $K_{\infty}$, abelian over $K$. In this article, we extend results of \cite{Kazim109} relating characteristic ideal of the $χ$-quotient of the projective limit of the ideal class groups to the $χ$-quotient of the projective limit of the $r$-th exterior power of units modulo Rubin-Stark units, in the non semi-simple case, for some $\overline{\mathbb{Q}_{p}}$-irreductible ch…
Given an abelian, CM extension K of any totally real number field k, we consider two conjectures `of Stark type'. The `Integrality Conjecture' concerns the image of a p-adic map `\mathfrak{s}_{K/k,S}' determined by the minus-part of the S-truncated equivariant L-function for K/k at s=1. It is connected to the Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture of Burns and Flach. The `Congruence Conjecture' says that \mathfrak{s}_{K/k,S} gives an explicit reciprocity law for the element predicted by the corresponding Rubin-Stark Conjecture for K^+/k. We study the general properties of these conjectures and…
Our first goal in this note is to explain that a weak form of Perrin-Riou's conjecture on the non-triviality of Beilinson-Kato classes follows as an easy consequence of the Iwasawa main conjectures, and deduce its refined versions in the supersingular case from this fact and a variety of Gross-Zagier formulae. Our second goal is to set up a conceptual framework in the context of $Λ$-adic Kolyvagin systems to treat analogues of Perrin-Riou's conjectures for higher motives of higher rank. We apply this general discussion in order to establish a link between Heegner points on a general class of C…
We prove that a refinement of Stark's Conjecture formulated by Rubin is true up to primes dividing the order of the Galois group, for finite, abelian extensions of function fields over finite fields. We also show that in the case of constant field extensions a statement stronger than Rubin's holds true.
In a previous paper the second author developed a new approach to the abelian p-adic Stark Conjecture at s=1 and stated some related conjectures. This paper develops and applies techniques using p-adic measures and continued fractions to numerically investigate one of these conjectures to high precision in fifteen cases with a real quadratic base field.
We develop a detailed arithmetic theory related to special values at arbitrary integers of the Artin $L$-series of linear characters. To do so we define canonical generalized Stark elements of arbitrary `rank' and `weight', thereby extending the classical theory of Rubin-Stark elements. We then formulate an extension to arbitrary weight of the refined version of the Rubin-Stark Conjecture that we studied in an earlier article and also show that generalized Stark elements constitute a $p$-adic family by formulating precise conjectural congruence relations between elements of differing weights. …
In this paper we construct, using Stark elements of Rubin [Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 46 (1996), no. 1, 33-62], Kolyvagin systems for certain modified Selmer structures (that are adjusted to have core rank one in the sense of [Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 168 (2004), no. 799] and prove a Gras-type conjecture, relating these Kolyvagin systems to appropriate ideal class groups, refining the results of Rubin [J. Reine Angew. Math. 425 (1992), 141-154].
We prove the existence of a canonical `higher Kolyvagin derivative' homomorphism between the modules of higher rank Euler systems and higher rank Kolyvagin systems, as has been conjectured to exist by Mazur and Rubin. This homomorphism exists in the setting of $p$-adic representations that are free with respect to the action of a Gorenstein order $\mathcal{R}$ and, in particular, implies that higher rank Euler systems control the $\mathcal{R}$-module structures of Selmer modules attached to the representation. We give a first application of this theory by considering the (conjectural) Euler sy…
We establish formulae of Stark type for the Stickelberger elements in the function field setting. Our result generalizes a work of Hayes and a conjecture of Gross. It is used to deduce a $p$-adic version of Rubin-Stark Conjecture and Burns Conjecture.
The goal of this article is two-fold: First, to prove a (two-variable) main conjecture for a CM field $F$ without assuming the $p$-ordinary hypothesis of Katz, making use of what we call the Rubin-Stark $\mathcal{L}$-restricted Kolyvagin systems which is constructed out of the conjectural Rubin-Stark Euler system of rank $g$. (We are also able to obtain weaker unconditional results in this direction.) Second objective is to prove the Park-Shahabi plus/minus main conjecture for a CM elliptic curve $E$ defined over a general totally real field again using (a twist of the) Rubin-Stark Kolyvagin s…
We formulate a conjecture which generalizes Darmon's "refined class number formula". We discuss relations between our conjecture and the equivariant leading term conjecture of Burns. As an application, we give another proof of the "except 2-part" of Darmon's conjecture, which was first proved by Mazur and Rubin.
In this paper, we construct (many) Kolyvagin systems out of Stickelberger elements, utilizing ideas borrowed from our previous work on Kolyvagin systems of Rubin-Stark elements. We show how to apply this construction to prove results on the odd parts of the ideal class groups of CM fields which are abelian over a totally real field, and deduce the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory for totally real fields (for totally odd characters). Although the main results of this paper have already been established by Wiles, our approach provides another example (which slightly differs from the case of Sta…
In this paper, we present a unifying approach to the general theory of abelian Stark conjectures. To do so we define natural notions of `zeta element', of `Weil-étale cohomology complexes' and of `integral Selmer groups' for the multiplicative group $\mathbb{G}_m$ over finite abelian extensions of number fields. We then conjecture a precise connection between zeta elements and Weil-étale cohomology complexes, we show this conjecture is equivalent to a special case of the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture and we give an unconditional proof of the analogous statement for global function fie…
We give a systematic method of providing numerical evidence for higher order Stark-type conjectures such as (in chronological order) Stark's conjecture over $\mathbb{Q}$, Rubin's conjecture, Popescu's conjecture, and a conjecture due to Burns that constitutes a generalization of Brumer's classical conjecture on annihilation of class groups. Our approach is general and could be used for any abelian extension of number fields, independent of the signature and type of places (finite or infinite) that split completely in the extension. We then employ our techniques in the situation where $K$ is a …
In an earlier article we proved the existence of a canonical Kolyvagin derivative homomorphism between the modules of Euler and Kolyvagin systems (in any given rank) that are associated to $p$-adic representations over number fields. We now explain how the existence of such a homomorphism leads to new results on the structure of the Selmer modules of Galois representations over Gorenstein orders and to a strategy for verifying (refinements of) the Tamagawa number conjecture of Bloch and Kato. We describe concrete applications relating to the multiplicative group over arbitrary number fields an…
Let $H/F$ be a finite abelian extension of number fields with $F$ totally real and $H$ a CM field. Let $S$ and $T$ be disjoint finite sets of places of $F$ satisfying the standard conditions. The Brumer-Stark conjecture states that the Stickelberger element $Θ^{H/F}_{S, T}$ annihilates the $T$-smoothed class group $\text{Cl}^T(H)$. We prove this conjecture away from $p=2$, that is, after tensoring with $\mathbf{Z}[1/2]$. We prove a stronger version of this result conjectured by Kurihara that gives a formula for the 0th Fitting ideal of the minus part of the Pontryagin dual of $\text{Cl}^T(H) \…
We state the Brumer-Stark conjecture and motivate it from two perspectives. Stark's perspective arose in his attempts to generalize the classical Dirichlet class number formula for the leading term of the Dedekind zeta function at $s=1$ (equivalently, $s=0$). Brumer's perspective arose by generalizing Stickelberger's work regarding the factorization of Gauss sums and the annihilation of class groups of cyclotomic fields. These viewpoints were synthesized by Tate, who stated the Brumer-Stark conjecture in its current form. The conjecture considers a totally real field $F$ and a finite abelian C…
We use Euler systems to prove the Gras conjecture for groups generated by Stark units in global function fields. The techniques applied here are classical and go back to Thaine, Kolyvagin and Rubin. We obtain our Euler systems from the torsion points of sign-normalized Drinfel'd modules.
In this paper we set up a general Kolyvagin system machinery for Euler systems of rank r (in the sense of Perrin-Riou) associated to a large class of Galois representations, building on our previous work on Kolyvagin systems of Rubin-Stark units and generalizing the results of Kato, Rubin and Perrin-Riou. Our machinery produces a bound on the size of the classical Selmer group attached to a Galoys representation T (that satisfies certain technical hypotheses) in terms of a certain r \times r determinant; a bound which remarkably goes hand in hand with Bloch-Kato conjectures. At the end, we pre…
Let A be a CM abelian variety defined over a number field K. We compute congruence relations on units in fields generated by adjoining torsion points of A to K. For elliptic curves, congruence relations of the type we compute were used in the proof of the Coates-Wiles theorem. In general, we compute congruence relations on exterior products of units in division fields. This result seems to fit more naturally into the framework of the Stark/Rubin conjectures.
We conjecture that special elements associated with rank-one motives are obtained $p$-adically from Rubin-Stark elements by means of a precise `higher-rank Soulé twist' construction. We show this conjecture incorporates a variety of known results and existing predictions and also gives rise to a concrete strategy for proving the equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture for rank-one motives. We then use this approach to obtain new evidence in support of the equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture in the setting of CM abelian varieties.
