Abstract : The p-adic Kummer--Leopoldt constant kappa_K of a number field K is (assuming the Leopoldt conjecture) the least integer c such that for all n >> 0, any global unit of K, which is locally a p^(n+c)th power at the p-places, is necessarily the p^nth power of a global unit of K. This constant has been computed by Assim & Nguyen Quang Do using Iwasawa's techniques, after intricate studies and calculations by many authors. We give an elementary p-adic proof and an improvement of these results, then a class field theory interpretation of kappa_K. We give some applications (including generalizations of Kummer's lemma on regular pth cyclotomic fields) and a natural definition of the normalized p-adic regulator for any K and any p≥2. This is done without analytical computations, using only class field theory and especially the properties of the so-called p-torsion group T_K of Abelian p-ramification theory over K.
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To appear in International Journal of Number Theory'' (2018). 2017

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Georges Gras. The p-adic Kummer-Leopoldt constant -- Normalized p-adic regulator. To appear in International Journal of Number Theory'' (2018). 2017. 〈hal-01444560v2〉

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