Gross's conjecture on the leading term of the p-adic L-function

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Let FF be a number field, let H/FH/F be a finite cyclic CM extension, let pp be a prime, and let RR, R0R_0, and R1R_1 be the subsets of primes of FF above pp that split, ramify, and remain in the third case in HH, respectively. Put rχ=#Rr_\chi=\#R, let χ\chi be the relevant character, let Lp(χω,s)L_p(\chi\omega,s) be the pp-adic LL-function, and let Rp(χ)\mathscr{R}_p(\chi) be the regulator of pp-units of HH. Gross's conjecture.

ord⁡s=0Lp(χω,s)≥rχ.\operatorname{ord}_{s=0}L_p(\chi\omega,s)\geq r_\chi.
Lp(rχ)(χ,0)rχ!L(χ,0)=Rp(χ)∏p∈R0(1−χ(p)).\frac{L_p^{(r_\chi)}(\chi,0)}{r_\chi!L(\chi,0)}=\mathscr{R}_p(\chi)\prod_{\mathfrak p\in R_0}(1-\chi(\mathfrak p)).
  1. Rp(χ)≠0\mathscr{R}_p(\chi)\neq0, and hence ord⁡s=0Lp(χω,s)=rχ\operatorname{ord}_{s=0}L_p(\chi\omega,s)=r_\chi. This is the pp-adic analogue of the classical order-of-vanishing and leading-term formulas for the Artin LL-function; the regulator nonvanishing is the substantive unresolved component in the formulation given here.
References

Primary source

Samit Dasgupta and Michael Spiess, “On the Characteristic Polynomial of the Gross Regulator Matrix”, arXiv:1705.09432 (2017).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1605.08169, arXiv:1411.0954, arXiv:1206.3050.

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