Stark's Conjectures were formulated in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The most general version predicts that the leading coe cient of the Maclaurin series of an Artin L-function should be the product of an algebraic number and a regulator made up of character values and logarithms of absolute values of units. When known, Stark's conjecture provides a factorization of the analytic class number formula of Dirichlet. Stark succeeded in formulating a \re ned abelian" version of his conjecture when the L-function in question has a rst order zero and is associated with an abelian extension of number elds. In the spirit of Stark, Rubin and Popescu formulated analogous \re ned abelian" conjectures for Artin L-Functions which vanish to arbitrary order r at s = 0. These conjectures are identical to Stark's own re ned abelian conjecture when restricted to order of vanishing r = 1. We introduce Popescu's Conjecture C(L=F; S; r): We prove Popescu's Conjecture for multiquadratic extensions when the set of primes S of the base eld is minimal given minor restrictions on the S-class group of the base eld. This extends the results of Sands to the case where #S = r + 1. We present three in nite families of settings where our methods allow us to verify Popescu's conjecture. We formulate a conjecture that predicts when a fundamental unit of a real quadratic eld must become a square in a multiquadratic extension.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvm.edu/oai:scholarworks.uvm.edu:graddis-1186 |
| Date | 02 October 2009 |
| Creators | Price, Jason |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks @ UVM |
| Source Sets | University of Vermont |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Graduate College Dissertations and Theses |
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