The ($p^{\infty}$
) fine Selmer group (also called the $0$
-Selmer group) of an elliptic curve is a subgroup of the usual $p^{\infty}$
Selmer group of an elliptic curve and is related to the first and the second Iwasawa cohomology groups. Coates-Sujatha observed that the structure of the fine Selmer group over the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$
-extension of a number field $K$
is intricately related to Iwasawa’s $\mu$
-invariant vanishing conjecture on the growth of $p$
-part of the ideal class group of $K$
in the cyclotomic tower. In this talk, we will discuss the structure and properties of the fine Selmer group over certain $p$
-adic Lie extensions of global fields. This talk is based on joint work with Sohan Ghosh and Sudhanshu Shekhar.