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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154753503321

Autore

Iwasawa Kinkichi

Titolo

Lectures on P-Adic L-Functions. (AM-74), Volume 74 / / Kinkichi Iwasawa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]

©1972

ISBN

1-4008-8170-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 pages)

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 271

Classificazione

SI 830

Disciplina

512/.74

Soggetti

L-functions

Algebraic number theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE / Iwasawa, Kenkichi -- CONTENTS -- §1. DIRICHLET'S L-FUNCTIONS -- §2. GENERALIZED BERNOULLI NUMBERS -- §3. p-ADIC L-FUNCTIONS -- §4. p-ADIC LOGARITHMS AND p-ADIC REGULATORS -- §5. CALCULATION OF Lp (1; χ) -- §6. AN ALTERNATE METHOD -- §7. SOME APPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

An especially timely work, the book is an introduction to the theory of p-adic L-functions originated by Kubota and Leopoldt in 1964 as p-adic analogues of the classical L-functions of Dirichlet.Professor Iwasawa reviews the classical results on Dirichlet's L-functions and sketches a proof for some of them. Next he defines generalized Bernoulli numbers and discusses some of their fundamental properties. Continuing, he defines p-adic L-functions, proves their existence and uniqueness, and treats p-adic logarithms and p-adic regulators. He proves a formula of Leopoldt for the values of p-adic L-functions at s=1. The formula was announced in 1964, but a proof has never before been published. Finally, he discusses some applications, especially the strong relationship with cyclotomic fields.