Bernoulli numbers, Hurwitz numbers, p-adic L-functions and Kummer's criterion.

Alvaro Lozano Robledo

RACSAM (2007)

  • Volume: 101, Issue: 1, page 1-32
  • ISSN: 1578-7303

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Let K = Q(ζp) and let hp be its class number. Kummer showed that p divides hp if and only if p divides the numerator of some Bernoulli number. In this expository note we discuss the generalizations of this type of criterion to totally real fields and quadratic imaginary fields.

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Lozano Robledo, Alvaro. "Bernoulli numbers, Hurwitz numbers, p-adic L-functions and Kummer's criterion.." RACSAM 101.1 (2007): 1-32. <http://eudml.org/doc/41658>.

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