2017Rocky Mountain Journal of MathematicsRequires access

The discriminant of abelian number fields

Victor Bautista-Ancona, Jose Uc-Kuk

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For an abelian number field $K$, the discriminant can be obtained from the conductor~$m$ of~$K$, the degree of~$K$ over $\mathbb {Q}$, and the degrees of extensions $K\cdot \mathbb {Q}(\zeta _{m/p^{\alpha }})/\mathbb {Q}(\zeta _{m/p^{\alpha }})$, where $p$ runs through the set of primes that divide $m$, and $p^{\alpha }$ is the greatest power that divides~$m$. In this paper, we give a formula for computing the discriminant of any abelian number field.

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For an abelian number field $K$, the discriminant can be obtained from the conductor~$m$ of~$K$, the degree of~$K$ over $\mathbb {Q}$, and the degrees of extensions $K\cdot \mathbb {Q}(\zeta _{m/p^{\alpha }})/\mathbb {Q}(\zeta _{m/p^{\alpha }})$, where $p$ runs through the set of primes that divide $m$, and $p^{\alpha }$ is the greatest power that divides~$m$. In this paper, we give a formula for computing the discriminant of any abelian number field.

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For an abelian number field $K$, the discriminant can be obtained from the conductor~$m$ of~$K$, the degree of~$K$ over $\mathbb {Q}$, and the degrees of extensions $K\cdot \mathbb {Q}(\zeta _{m/p^{\alpha }})/\mathbb {Q}(\zeta _{m/p^{\alpha }})$, where $p$ runs through the set of primes that divide $m$, and $p^{\alpha }$ is the greatest power that divides~$m$. In this paper, we give a formula for computing the discriminant of any abelian number field.

Key concepts: Discriminant, Mathematics, Abelian group, Algebraic number field, Combinatorics, Field (mathematics), Conductor, Discrete mathematics

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