A modular construction of unramified p-extensions of Q(N^{1/p})
Jaclyn Lang (Temple University)
Wednesday 4th May, 2022 16:00-17:00 Maths 110
Abstract
In his 1976 proof of the converse of Herbrand’s theorem, Ribet used Eisenstein-cuspidal congruences to produce unramified degree-p extensions of the p-th cyclotomic field when p is an odd prime. After reviewing Ribet’s strategy, we will discuss recent work with Preston Wake in which we apply similar techniques to produce unramified degree-p extensions of Q(N^{1/p}) when N is a prime that is congruent to -1 mod p. This answers a question posed on Frank Calegari’s blog.
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