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Number Theory Student Seminar
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   Time:
   Place:

            3:30 PM   on Thursday,  7 April
            153MCS,  BU Math Department  

  Title:
         Leopoldt p-adic Class Number-regulator
         Formula
        

Speaker:

          Kalin Kostadinov (Boston University)
Abstract: In the middle of the last century Leopoldt established various p-adic analogues of the classical complex analytic class number formulas, in which the role of the complex L-function is played by a certain new object, introduced by Leopoldt and Kubota, and called p-adic L-function.
This talk will be mostly a review of the second and fourth chapter of Lang’s Cyclotomic Fields using the shuffle-stuffle method, starting with the statement of the Leopoldt formula and then shedding some light into the quantities involved.

 

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