ON WEIL NUMBERS IN CYCLOTOMIC FIELDS

In this paper, we study the p-adic behavior of Weil numbers in the cyclotomic ℤp-extension of the pth cyclotomic field. We determine the characteristic ideal of the quotient of semi-local units by Weil numbers in terms of the characteristic ideals of some classical modules that appear in the Iwasawa theory. In a recent preprint [9] by Nguyen Quang Do and Nicolas, a generalization of this result to a semi-simple case was obtained.