Class numbers in cyclotomic Zp-extensions
Abstract
For any prime p and any positive integer n, let B(p,n) denote the n-th layer of the cyclotomic Zp-extension over the rationals. Based on the heuristics of Cohen and Lenstra, and refined by new results on class numbers of particular B(p,n), we provide evidence for the following conjecture: For all primes p and positive integers n, the ideal class group of B(p,n) is trivial.
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