Speaker: 

Barry Smith

Institution: 

UCSD

Time: 

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 12:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

An explicit expression for the L-function evaluator associated to an abelian extension K/k of number fields of degree 2p will be discussed. Instances will be given where this expression can be used to determine pieces of the ideal class group of K that are annihilated by this L-function evaluator.