Seminar series
Date
Wed, 08 May 2019
11:00
Location
N3.12
Speaker
Jay Swar
Organisation
University of Oxford

KW states that every finite abelian extension of the rationals is contained in a cyclotomic extension. In a previous talk, this was reduced to considering cyclic extensions of the local fields Q_p of prime power order l^r. When l\neq p, general theory is sufficient, however for l=p, more specific (although not necessarily more abstruse) descriptions become necessary.
I will focus on the simple structure of Q_p's extensions to obstruct the remaining obstructions to KW (and hopefully provoke some interest in local fields in those less familiar). Time-permitting, I will talk about this theorem in the context of class field theory and/or Hilbert's 12th problem.

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