A note on circular distributions
In this note we consider projective limits of Sinnott and Washington groups of circular units in the cyclotomic -extension of an abelian field. A concrete example is given to show that these two limits do not coincide in general.
For an algebraic number field and a prime , define the number to be the maximal number such that there exists a Galois extension of whose Galois group is a free pro--group of rank . The Leopoldt conjecture implies , ( denotes the number of complex places of ). Some examples of and with have been known so far. In this note, the invariant is studied, and among other things some examples with are given.
We study the behaviour of the absolute Weil height of algebraic numbers in certain infinite extensions of . In particular, we obtain a Northcott type property for infinite abelian extensions of finite exponent and also a Bogomolov type property for certain fields which are a -adic analog of totally real fields. Moreover, we obtain a non-archimedean analog of a uniform distribution theorem of Bilu in the archimedean case.
Let k be an (imaginary or real) abelian number field whose conductor has two distinct prime divisors. We shall construct a basis for the group C of circular units in k and compute the index of C in the group E of units in k. This result is a generalization of Theorem 3.3 in a previous paper [1].