Frequency-measure conjecture for p-class tower groups

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Let GG be a finitely generated pro-pp group. Let Freq⁡(G)\operatorname{Freq}(G) denote its limiting frequency among imaginary quadratic fields, and let Meas⁡(G)\operatorname{Meas}(G) denote its Cohen–Lenstra-type measure in the category of Schur groups. Frequency-measure conjecture. For every pro-pp group GG,

Freq⁡(G)=Meas⁡(G).\operatorname{Freq}(G)=\operatorname{Meas}(G).

In particular, Freq⁡(G)=0\operatorname{Freq}(G)=0 if GG is not Schur; for finite Schur groups, the frequency is given by the formula stated elsewhere in the paper. This is the paper’s main conjectural identification of arithmetic frequencies with group-theoretic measures.

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Nigel Boston, Michael R. Bush and Farshid Hajir, “Heuristics for p-class towers of imaginary quadratic fields, with an Appendix by Jonathan Blackhurst”, arXiv:1111.4679 (2014).

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