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p-Selmer growth in extensions of degree p

p-Selmer growth in extensions of degree p

There is a known analogy between growth questions for class groups and for Selmer groups. If p is a prime, then the p-torsion of the ideal class group grows unboundedly in Z / p Z -extensions of a fixed number field K, so one expects the same for the p-Selmer …