Noncommutative Iwasawa theory: The algebraic side.


Abstract

One of the cornerstones in the formulation of a "Main Conjecture" in the algebraic side of classical commutative Iwasawa theory is a structure theorem for finitely generated modules, due to Serre/Iwasawa. In this
talk, we shall present a similar theorem for modules over non-commutative Iwasawa algebras.

This is joint work with J. Coates and P. Schneider.

We shall also discuss further questions and some recent developments related to this study.