On the $2$-adic logarithm of units of certain totally imaginary quartic fields

Abstract

In this paper, we prove a result on the $2$-adic logarithm of the fundamental unit of the field $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[4]{-q})$, where $q\equiv 3\mathrm{mod}4$ is a prime. When $q\equiv 15\mathrm{mod}16$, this result confirms a speculation of Coates-Li and has consequences for certain Iwasawa modules arising in their work.

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