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Main Authors: Vallières, Daniel, Wilson, Chase A.
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05529
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author Vallières, Daniel
Wilson, Chase A.
author_facet Vallières, Daniel
Wilson, Chase A.
contents We study an analogue of the Herbrand-Ribet theorem, and its refinement by Mazur and Wiles, in graph theory. For an odd prime number $p$, we let $\mathbb{F}_{p}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ denote the finite field with $p$ elements and the ring of $p$-adic integers, respectively. We consider Galois covers $Y/X$ of finite graphs with Galois group $Δ$ isomorphic to $\mathbb{F}_{p}^{\times}$. Given a $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$-valued character of $Δ$, we relate the cardinality of the corresponding character component of the $p$-primary subgroup of the degree zero Picard group of $Y$ to the $p$-adic absolute value of the special value at $u=1$ of the corresponding Artin-Ihara $L$-function.
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spellingShingle An analogue of the Herbrand-Ribet theorem in graph theory
Vallières, Daniel
Wilson, Chase A.
Number Theory
Combinatorics
05C25, 20C11, 11M41
We study an analogue of the Herbrand-Ribet theorem, and its refinement by Mazur and Wiles, in graph theory. For an odd prime number $p$, we let $\mathbb{F}_{p}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ denote the finite field with $p$ elements and the ring of $p$-adic integers, respectively. We consider Galois covers $Y/X$ of finite graphs with Galois group $Δ$ isomorphic to $\mathbb{F}_{p}^{\times}$. Given a $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$-valued character of $Δ$, we relate the cardinality of the corresponding character component of the $p$-primary subgroup of the degree zero Picard group of $Y$ to the $p$-adic absolute value of the special value at $u=1$ of the corresponding Artin-Ihara $L$-function.
title An analogue of the Herbrand-Ribet theorem in graph theory
topic Number Theory
Combinatorics
05C25, 20C11, 11M41
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05529