Reciprocity and Brauer invariants in composita of cyclotomic towers #
The cyclotomic product formula at each prime implies reciprocity on every normal subextension
of a finite compositum of prime-power cyclotomic towers. In particular, the local invariants
of a Brauer class split by a cyclic subextension of such a compositum sum to zero. This allows
the splitting extension to involve several primes, rather than requiring it to lie in a
single prime-power tower. The theorem
sumLocalInv_brLocalization_relBrInfl_eq_zero_of_le_adjoin_nth_roots gives the result for
every cyclic subextension of K(μ_m)/K, for any nonzero conductor m.
The simultaneous cyclotomic characters have values in a finite product of groups of p-adic units. Their common kernel fixes the compositum. A character of its Galois group therefore factors through the image of this product map. Finiteness of the family is essential when choosing a common finite support for the local factors.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Class Field Theory, v4.03, Chapter VII, Lemmas 8.4 and 8.5.
- J. Tate, Global class field theory, in Cassels–Fröhlich, Algebraic Number Theory, Chapter VII, §11.
The prime-by-prime product formula and the cyclic-class comparison are supplied by
Global.Cyclotomic.ProductFormula and Global.CharacterCarry, respectively.
The local Artin symbols of a nonzero global element satisfy reciprocity on every normal subextension of a finite compositum of prime-power cyclotomic towers, after applying any additive character of its Galois group.
The local invariants of a Brauer class split by a cyclic subextension of a finite compositum of prime-power cyclotomic towers sum to zero.
The sum of local invariants vanishes on every Brauer class split by a cyclic subextension
of K(μ_m)/K, for any nonzero m.