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Samit Dasgupta (Duke University)

Friday, December 10, 2021 14:00to15:00

Title:ÌýStark's Conjectures and Hilbert's 12th Problem.

´¡²ú²õ³Ù°ù²¹³¦³Ù:ÌýIn this talk we will discuss two central problems in algebraic number theory and their interconnections: explicit class field theory and the special values of L-functions.Ìý The goal of explicit class field theory is to describe the abelian extensions of a ground number field via analytic means intrinsic to the ground field; this question lies at the core of Hilbert's 12th Problem.Ìý Meanwhile, there is an abundance of conjectures on the values of L-functions at certain special points.Ìý Of these, Stark's Conjecture has relevance toward explicit class field theory.Ìý I will describe two recent joint results with Mahesh Kakde on these topics.Ìý The first is a proof of the Brumer-Stark conjecture away from p=2. This conjecture states the existence of certain canonical elements in abelian extensions of totally real fields.Ìý The second is a proof of an exact formula for Brumer-Stark units that has been developed over the last 15 years.Ìý We show that these units together with other easily written explicit elements generate the maximal abelian extension of a totally real field, thereby giving a p-adic solution to the question of explicit class field theory for these fields.

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