On the equivariant and the non-equivariant main conjecture for imaginary quadratic fields

Jennifer Johnson-Leung, Guido Kings

Published 2008-04-17, updated 2009-08-12Version 2

The Iwasawa main conjecture fields has been an important tool to study the arithmetic of special values of $L$-functions of Hecke characters of imaginary quadratic fields. To obtain the finest possible invariants it is important to know the main conjecture for all prime numbers $p$ and also to have an equivariant version at disposal. In this paper we first prove the main conjecture for imaginary quadratic fields for all prime numbers $p$, improving earlier results by Rubin. From this we deduce the equivariant main conjecture in the case that a certain $\mu$-invariant vanishes. For prime numbers $p\nmid 6$ which split in $K$, this is a theorem by a result of Gillard.