Tate's Brumer–Stark conjecture

Let FF be a number field, let H/FH/F be a finite abelian extension with Galois group GG, and let SS and TT be disjoint finite sets of places of FF such that SS contains the archimedean places and the finite places ramified in HH. Assume that the only root of unity ζμ(H)\zeta\in\mu(H) satisfying ζ1(modp)\zeta\equiv 1\pmod{\mathfrak p} for every prime p\mathfrak p of HH above a place in TT is 11. Let ClT(H)\operatorname{Cl}^T(H) be the ray class group of HH with conductor the product of the primes above TT, and let ΘS,T\Theta_{S,T} be the corresponding TT-smoothed, SS-depleted Stickelberger element. Tate's Brumer–Stark conjecture. One has

ΘS,TAnnZ[G](ClT(H)).\Theta_{S,T}\in\operatorname{Ann}_{\mathbf{Z}[G]}\bigl(\operatorname{Cl}^T(H)\bigr).

This is a central integral annihilation statement in the Brumer–Stark conjecture, relating special values of equivariant LL-functions to ray class groups. The source notes that Tate's original formulation is slightly stronger, although the discrepancy disappears after inverting 22; the status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Samit Dasgupta and Mahesh Kakde, “On the Brumer-Stark Conjecture”, arXiv:2010.00657 (2022).

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