We reprove the main equidistribution instance in the Ferrero-Washington proof of the vanishing of cyclotomic Iwasawa $\mu$-invariant, based on the ergodicity of a certain $p$-adic skew-product extension dynamical system that can be identified with Bernoulli shift (joint with Bharathwaj Palvannan).
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[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/11531