On automorphism groups of -adic Schottky curves
Bernoulli numbers appear as special values of zeta functions at integers and identities relating the Bernoulli numbers follow as a consequence of properties of the corresponding zeta functions. The most famous example is that of the special values of the Riemann zeta function and the Bernoulli identities due to Euler. In this paper we introduce a general principle for producing Bernoulli identities and apply it to zeta functions considered by Shintani, Zagier and Eie. Our results include some of...
Let be a prime. Let such that , let be characters of conductor not divided by and let be the Teichmüller character. For all between and , for all between and , setLet and let be a prime of the valuation ring of . For all let be the Iwasawa series associated to and its reduction modulo . Finally let be an algebraic closure of . Our main result is that if the characters are all distinct modulo , then and the series are linearly independent over a certain...