Stickelberger annihilators of logarithmic class groups

Abstract

For any odd prime number $\ell$ and any abelian number field F containing the $\ell$-th roots of unity, we show that the Stickelberger ideal annihilates the imaginary component of the $\ell$-group of logarithmic classes and that its reflection annihilates the real componen of the Bertrandias-Payan module. As a consequence we obtain a very simple proof of annihilation results for the so-called wild {\'e}tale $\ell$-kernels of F .