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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lawrence C. WashingtonPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: 2nd ed. 1997 Volume: 83 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.950kg ISBN: 9780387947624ISBN 10: 0387947620 Pages: 490 Publication Date: 05 December 1996 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1 Fermat’s Last Theorem.- 2 Basic Results.- 3 Dirichlet Characters.- 4 Dirichlet L-series and Class Number Formulas.- 5 p-adic L-functions and Bernoulli Numbers.- 5.1. p-adic functions.- 5.2. p-adic L-functions.- 5.3. Congruences.- 5.4. The value at s = 1.- 5.5. The p-adic regulator.- 5.6. Applications of the class number formula.- 6 Stickelberger’s Theorem.- 6.1. Gauss sums.- 6.2. Stickelberger’s theorem.- 6.3. Herbrand’s theorem.- 6.4. The index of the Stickelberger ideal.- 6.5. Fermat’s Last Theorem.- 7 Iwasawa’s Construction of p-adic L-functions.- 7.1. Group rings and power series.- 7.2. p-adic L-functions.- 7.3. Applications.- 7.4. Function fields.- 7.5. µ = 0.- 8 Cyclotomic Units.- 8.1. Cyclotomic units.- 8.2. Proof of the p-adic class number formula.- 8.3. Units of $$ \mathbb{Q}\left( {{\zeta _p}} \right)$$ and Vandiver’s conjecture.- 8.4. p-adic expansions.- 9 The Second Case of Fermat’s Last Theorem.- 9.1. The basic argument.- 9.2. The theorems.- 10 Galois Groups Acting on Ideal Class Groups.- 10.1. Some theorems on class groups.- 10.2. Reflection theorems.- 10.3. Consequences of Vandiver’s conjecture.- 11 Cyclotomic Fields of Class Number One.- 11.1. The estimate for even characters.- 11.2. The estimate for all characters.- 11.3. The estimate for hm-.- 11.4. Odlyzko’s bounds on discriminants.- 11.5. Calculation of hm+.- 12 Measures and Distributions.- 12.1. Distributions.- 12.2. Measures.- 12.3. Universal distributions.- 13 Iwasawa’s Theory of $$ {\mathbb{Z}_p} -$$ extensions.- 13.1. Basic facts.- 13.2. The structure of A-modules.- 13.3. Iwasawa’s theorem.- 13.4. Consequences.- 13.5. The maximal abelian p-extension unramified outside p.- 13.6. The main conjecture.- 13.7. Logarithmic derivatives.- 13.8. Local units modulo cyclotomicunits.- 14 The Kronecker—Weber Theorem.- 15 The Main Conjecture and Annihilation of Class Groups.- 15.1. Stickelberger’s theorem.- 15.2. Thaine’s theorem.- 15.3. The converse of Herbrand’s theorem.- 15.4. The Main Conjecture.- 15.5. Adjoints.- 15.6. Technical results from Iwasawa theory.- 15.7. Proof of the Main Conjecture.- 16 Miscellany.- 16.1. Primality testing using Jacobi sums.- 16.2. Sinnott’s proof that µ = 0.- 16.3. The non-p-part of the class number in a $$ {\mathbb{Z}_p} -$$ extension.- 1. Inverse limits.- 2. Infinite Galois theory and ramification theory.- 3. Class field theory.- Tables.- 1. Bernoulli numbers.- 2. Irregular primes.- 3. Relative class numbers.- 4. Real class numbers.- List of Symbols.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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