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Thaine's Method for Circular Units and a Conjecture of Gross

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Henri Darmon*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08540 U.S.A
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Abstract

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We formulate a conjecture analogous to Gross' refinement of the Stark conjectures on special values of abelian L-series at s = 0. Some evidence for the conjecture can be obtained, thanks to the fundamental ideas of F. Thaine.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1995

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