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Brumer's theorem for Q(ζn)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_n)Q(ζn​) with φ(n)>4\varphi(n) > 4φ(n)>4

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Leopoldt.defect_eq_zero_cyclotomicField_of_four_lt_totient

by xuanji · Sep 27, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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Let ppp be a prime and let nnn be a natural number with φ(n)>4\varphi(n) > 4φ(n)>4, where φ\varphiφ is Euler's totient function, so that Q(ζn)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_n)Q(ζn​) is a totally complex field of degree φ(n)≥6\varphi(n) \ge 6φ(n)≥6 and unit rank φ(n)/2−1≥2\varphi(n)/2 - 1 \ge 2φ(n)/2−1≥2. Then the Leopoldt defect of the nnn-th cyclotomic field vanishes:

DL(Q(ζn))  =  0.\mathcal{D}_L\big(\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_n)\big) \;=\; 0 .DL​(Q(ζn​))=0.

Here DL(K)=rank⁡ZOK×−rank⁡ZpE‾\mathcal{D}_L(K) = \operatorname{rank}_{\mathbb{Z}} \mathcal{O}_K^\times - \operatorname{rank}_{\mathbb{Z}_p} \overline{E}DL​(K)=rankZ​OK×​−rankZp​​E is the defect of Section 1.1 of the mission source, E‾\overline{E}E being the closure of the diagonal image of the global units in the product of the local unit groups at the primes above ppp.

This is Brumer's theorem for cyclotomic fields in the range where it is not elementary. When φ(n)≤4\varphi(n) \le 4φ(n)≤4 the unit rank is at most 111 and the vanishing follows from the general bound DL(K)≤rank⁡OK×−1\mathcal{D}_L(K) \le \operatorname{rank} \mathcal{O}_K^\times - 1DL​(K)≤rankOK×​−1; for φ(n)>4\varphi(n) > 4φ(n)>4 one needs Brumer's ppp-adic analogue of Baker's theorem on linear forms in logarithms, applied to the cyclotomic units via the character decomposition of the ppp-adic regulator.

Formalization Note. CyclotomicField n ℚ is Mathlib's splitting field of the nnn-th cyclotomic polynomial over Q\mathbb{Q}Q. The hypothesis 4<φ(n)4 < \varphi(n)4<φ(n) excludes exactly the fields Q\mathbb{Q}Q (n=0,1,2n = 0,1,2n=0,1,2), Q(ζ3)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_3)Q(ζ3​), Q(i)\mathbb{Q}(i)Q(i), Q(ζ5)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_5)Q(ζ5​), Q(ζ8)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_8)Q(ζ8​) and Q(ζ12)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_{12})Q(ζ12​) (together with n=6,10n = 6, 10n=6,10, which give the same fields). No hypothesis relates ppp to nnn.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_LeopoldtDefect

open NumberField
Formal statement
namespace Leopoldt
theorem defect_eq_zero_cyclotomicField_of_four_lt_totient (p : ℕ) [Fact p.Prime] (n : ℕ)
    (hn : 4 < n.totient) :
    defect p (CyclotomicField n ℚ) = 0 := by sorry
end Leopoldt
Source
Brumer's theorem (the case K = Q(zeta_n) with phi(n) > 4), as attributed in the mission source: Preda Mihailescu, On CM Z_p-extensions and the Leopoldt conjecture for CM fields, https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4544 (v4, 17 Feb 2016), Section 1 (Introduction), p. 2: "Leopoldt suggested in his seminal paper that the p-adic regulator of abelian extensions of Q never vanishes. This fact could be proved by Brumer in 1967 ...". Original: A. Brumer, On the units of algebraic number fields, Mathematika 14 (1967), 121-124, https://doi.org/10.1112/S0025579300003703; see also Washington, Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields, Corollary 5.32 and Section 5.5. The defect is the one of Section 1.1, p. 3 of the mission source.

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