Greenberg's class number conjecture for p-adic towers

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Let pp) be a fixed prime, let dd be a positive integer, and let

K=K0⊂K1⊂K2⊂⋯⊂Kn⊂⋯⊂K∞K=K_0\subset K_1\subset K_2\subset\cdots\subset K_n\subset\cdots\subset K_{\infty}

be a Zpd\mathbb{Z}_p^d-extension tower in which Kn/KK_n/K corresponds to the subgroup (pnZ)d(p^n\mathbb{Z})^d. Write Cl⁡(Kn)\operatorname{Cl}(K_n) for the ideal class group of KnK_n. Greenberg's class number conjecture. There exists a polynomial f(U,V)∈Q[U,V]f(U,V)\in\mathbb{Q}[U,V] with total degree deg⁡f≤d\deg f\leq d and degree in VV deg⁡Vf≤1\deg_V f\leq 1 such that, for all sufficiently large nn,

vp(#Cl⁡(Kn))=f(pn,n).v_p(\#\operatorname{Cl}(K_n))=f(p^n,n).

Equivalently, there exist non-negative integers μ,λ,μ1,…,μd−1,λ1,…,λd−1\mu,\lambda,\mu_1,\ldots,\mu_{d-1},\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_{d-1} and ν∈Q\nu\in\mathbb{Q} such that, for all sufficiently large nn,

vp(#Cl⁡(Kn))=(μpn+λn)p(d−1)n+∑i=1d−1(μipn+λin)p(d−i−1)n+ν.v_p(\#\operatorname{Cl}(K_n))=(\mu p^n+\lambda n)p^{(d-1)n}+\sum_{i=1}^{d-1}(\mu_i p^n+\lambda_i n)p^{(d-i-1)n}+\nu.

This is a higher-dimensional analogue of Iwasawa's class number formula for Zpd\mathbb{Z}_p^d-extensions. The statement is presented as Greenberg's conjecture in the source; its resolution status is not specified here.

References

Primary source

Taiga Adachi, Kosuke Mizuno and Sohei Tateno, “Iwasawa theory for weighted graphs”, arXiv:2412.01612 (2025).

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