The Malle conjecture for 2-ranks of cyclic cubic and quintic class groups

Let {3,5}\ell\in\{3,5\} and put q=21q=2^{\ell-1}. For mZ0{}m\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}\cup\{\infty\}, define (q)0=1(q)_0=1 and (q)m=i=1m(1qi)(q)_m=\prod_{i=1}^m(1-q^{-i}) for positive finite mm.

Malle's class-group rank conjecture. As KK ranges over cyclic number fields of degree \ell, for every rZ0r\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0},

Prob(rk2Cl(K)=(1)r)=(1+1q)(q)(q2)(q)21qr(r+2)(q)r.\operatorname{Prob}\left(\operatorname{rk}_2\operatorname{Cl}(K)=(\ell-1)r\right)=\left(1+\frac{1}{\sqrt q}\right)\frac{(\sqrt q)_\infty(q^2)_\infty}{(q)_\infty^2}\frac{1}{\sqrt q^{r(r+2)}(q)_r}.

This is attributed in the source to Malle and corrects the Cohen–Lenstra prediction to account for roots of unity in these fields. The source gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Benjamin Breen, Ila Varma, John Voight and appendix with Noam Elkies, “On unit signatures and narrow class groups of odd degree abelian number fields”, arXiv:1910.00449 (2021).

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