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2022/100/1-2 (2) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2022.8951 — pp. 11-28

Structure of the Galois group of the maximal unramified pro-$2$-extension of some $\mathbb{Z}_2$-extensions

Authors: Abdelmalek Azizi, Mohammed Rezzougui and Abdelkader Zekhnini

Abstract:

For a number field $ k$, we consider the Galois group $G=\operatorname{Gal}(\mathcal{L}( k_{\infty})/ k_{\infty})$ of the maximal unramified pro-$2$-extension of the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_2$-extension $ k_{\infty}$ of $ k$. In terms of transfer, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for a $2$-group to be abelian or metacyclic non-abelian whenever its abelianization is of type $(2^n, 2^m)$, with $n\geq2$ and $m\geq2$. Then we apply this result to construct an infinite family of real quadratic fields for which $G$ is an abelian pro-$2$-group of rank $2$.

Keywords: Iwasawa theory, $Z_2$-extension, 2-class field tower, real quadratic field, 2-class group, metacyclic and non-metacyclic 2-group, capitulation

Mathematics Subject Classification: 11R23, 20D15, 11R11, 11R20, 11R29, 11R32, 11R37