A geometric view on Iwasawa theory

Introduction to Iwasawa Theory

On the Μ-invariant in Iwasawa Theory

The aim of this expository article is to discuss the μ-invariant associated to finitely generated modules over Iwasawa algebras. This is an important invariant which was first discovered by Iwasawa in the 1960’s and occurs in his seminal work on cyclotomic fields [9], [10]. In fact, Iwasawa conjectured that his μ-invariant was always zero for the pprimary subgroup of the ideal class group of th...

Iwasawa theory and generalizations

This is an introduction to Iwasawa theory and its generalizations. We discuss some main conjectures and related subjects. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 11R23; Secondary 11G40, 14G10.

Geometric View of Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory

The variational formulation for Lie-transform Hamiltonian perturbation theory is presented in terms of an action functional defined on a two-dimensional parameter space. A fundamental equation in Hamiltonian perturbation theory is shown to result from the freedom of choice of the integration path for the action functional.

Iwasawa Theory for Elliptic Curves

The topics that we will discuss have their origin in Mazur’s synthesis of the theory of elliptic curves and Iwasawa’s theory of ZZp-extensions in the early 1970s. We first recall some results from Iwasawa’s theory. Suppose that F is a finite extension of Q and that F∞ is a Galois extension of F such that Gal(F∞/F ) ∼= ZZp, the additive group of p-adic integers, where p is any prime. Equivalentl...