Cohen–Lenstra conjecture for Sylow subgroups of quadratic class groups

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Let SX+S_X^+ (resp. SX−S_X^-) denote the set of positive (resp. negative) fundamental discriminants DD with ∣D∣<X|D|<X. Let pp be an odd prime and let BB be a finite abelian pp-group.

Cohen–Lenstra conjecture. The proportion of discriminants D∈SX±D\in S_X^{\pm} for which the Sylow pp-subgroup of the class group of Q(D)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt D) is isomorphic to BB satisfies

lim⁡X→∞#{D∈SX±:Cl⁡(Q(D))p≃B}∣SX±∣=∏k=1∞(1−p−k−u)∣B∣u∣Aut⁡(B)∣,\lim_{X\to\infty}\frac{\#\{D\in S_X^{\pm}:\operatorname{Cl}(\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt D))_p\simeq B\}}{|S_X^{\pm}|}=\frac{\prod_{k=1}^{\infty}(1-p^{-k-u})}{|B|^u|\operatorname{Aut}(B)|},

where u=0u=0 for SX−S_X^- and u=1u=1 for SX+S_X^+.

This heuristic predicts the distribution of Sylow pp-subgroups of class groups of quadratic number fields and is the Cohen–Lenstra distribution approached by cokernels of suitable large random integral matrices. The source does not provide evidence resolving the conjecture itself.

References

Primary source

Isaac Rajagopal, “Universality for cokernels of partially random integral matrices”, arXiv:2607.06952 (2026).

Additional references

12 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2411.08772, arXiv:2409.01226, arXiv:2208.06862, arXiv:2104.02855, arXiv:2009.13262, arXiv:1511.07127, arXiv:1504.04391, arXiv:1502.07953, arXiv:1404.2447, arXiv:1111.4679, arXiv:math/0512260.

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