Bernouilli numbers, Eisenstein series and cyclotomic units (Colloquium AGA)

Arithmétique

Lieu: 
Salle Kampé de Fériet
Orateur: 
Eric Urban
Affiliation: 
Columbia University
Dates: 
Mardi, 7 Mai, 2019 - 14:00 - 15:00
Résumé: 
I will recall what are the objects of the title and explain how one can combine them in a new way to explain a deep Theorem of Mazur and Wiles (proving a conjecture of Iwasawa)  that gives a formula for the cardinality of the odd p-part of the class groups of cyclotomic fields in terms of Bernouilli numbers.