Topological Iwasawa invariants and arithmetic statistics

  • Cedric Dion

    Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique, Université Laval, Pavillion Alexandre-Vachon, 1045 Avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada
  • Anwesh Ray

    Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada
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Abstract

Given a prime number , we study topological analogues of Iwasawa invariants associated to -covers of the -sphere that are branched along a link. We prove explicit criteria to detect these Iwasawa invariants, and apply them to the study of links consisting of component knots. Fixing the prime , we prove statistical results for the average behaviour of -primary Iwasawa invariants for -bridge links that are in Schubert normal form. Our main result, which is entirely unconditional, shows that the density of -bridge links for which the -invariant vanishes, and the -invariant is equal to , is . We also conjecture that the density of -bridge links for which the -invariant vanishes is , and this is significantly backed by computational evidence. Our results are proven in a topological setting, yet have arithmetic significance, as we set out new directions in arithmetic statistics and arithmetic topology.

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Cedric Dion, Anwesh Ray, Topological Iwasawa invariants and arithmetic statistics. Doc. Math. 27 (2022), pp. 1643–1669

DOI 10.4171/DM/X14