Stark--Tate conjecture for rank-one abelian extensions

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Let H/FH/F be an abelian extension of number fields, let WW be the number of roots of unity in HH, and let SS be a finite set of places of FF containing the ramified and infinite places, with ∣S∣≥2|S|\geq 2. Suppose a place p∈S\mathfrak p\in S splits completely in FF, put T=S∖{p}T=S\setminus\{\mathfrak p\}, and let US,HTU_{S,H}^T be the group of elements satisfying the valuation conditions in the source. For σ∈Gal⁡(H/F)\sigma\in\operatorname{Gal}(H/F) and a place P∣p\mathfrak P\mid\mathfrak p, let ζSGal⁡(σ,s)\zeta_S^{\operatorname{Gal}}(\sigma,s) be the Galois-theoretic partial zeta function. Stark--Tate conjecture. There exists \e∈US,HT\e\in U_{S,H}^T such that

log⁡∣σ(\e)∣P=−WζSGal⁡′(σ,0)\log|\sigma(\e)|_{\mathfrak P}=-W\zeta_S^{\operatorname{Gal}\prime}(\sigma,0)

for every σ\sigma and P∣p\mathfrak P\mid\mathfrak p, and such that H(\e1/W)H(\e^{1/W}) is abelian over FF. Tate's formulation refines Stark's published assertion and is used to obtain abelian extensions containing the relevant RM values; the conjecture remains unresolved in the source.

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Gene S. Kopp, “The Shintani–Faddeev modular cocycle: Stark units from q-Pochhammer ratios”, arXiv:2411.06763 (2025).

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