Abstract:

We'll begin with classical Iwasawa theory, where one studies a relationship, called the Iwasawa main conjecture, between an analytic object (the p-adic L-function) and an algebraic object (the Selmer group).  This relationship involves codimension one cycles of an Iwasawa algebra.  The topic of higher codimension Iwasawa theory seeks to generalize this relationship. We will describe one such result using codimension two cycles. This is joint work with Antonio Lei.