Genus characters on the narrow class group #
The genus character of a quadratic field is initially defined only on ideals whose absolute norm is coprime to a chosen product of prime discriminants. This file uses coprime representatives to descend that arithmetic character to the whole narrow class group. The resulting homomorphism is the character package needed for the lower bound in the real quadratic genus-theory formula.
The construction follows Cox, Primes of the Form x² + ny², §3.B, and Lemmermeyer,
Reciprocity Laws, §2.2. The coprime-ideal character and the strong-approximation representative
theorem used here are developed in the preceding Tau Ceti modules.
Main results #
genusCharFunCoprimeIdealHom_eq_of_mk0_eq: the coprime-ideal character is constant on fibres of the map to the narrow class group.genusCharFunNarrowClassGroupHom: the descended genus character onCl⁺(K).genusCharFunNarrowClassGroupHom_mk0: its computation on a coprime integral ideal.genusCharFunNarrowClassGroupHom_mk0_eq_primeDiscriminantCharFun_absNorm: the singleton character evaluated at an ideal whose norm is coprime to the selected prime discriminant.genusCharFunNarrowClassGroupHom_eq_prod_singleton: a subset-indexed narrow genus character is the product of its singleton characters.
Coprime genus characters are constant on narrow-class fibres.
The character has the same value on any two coprime integral ideals with the same narrow ideal class. This fibre invariance is what allows the character to descend from coprime ideals to the full narrow class group.
The genus character on the narrow class group.
For a factor t of a prime-discriminant factorization, this is the homomorphism
Cl⁺(K) → ℤˣ obtained by evaluating a coprime integral representative. Its definition is
independent of the representative by genusCharFunCoprimeIdealHom_eq_of_mk0_eq.
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The descended genus character evaluates on a coprime ideal as the original ideal character.
The genus character of an ideal is its character at the absolute norm.
Let D = ∏ P ∈ s, P be the prime-discriminant factorization for K = ℚ(√d). If a nonzero
integral ideal I has absolute norm coprime to P, then the singleton genus character of its
narrow class at P ∈ s is primeDiscriminantCharFun P (absNorm I).
A genus character indexed by a set t of prime discriminants is the product of the
characters indexed by the singletons in t.
Although this is immediate for the arithmetic function genusCharFun, the narrow-class-group
characters are defined using coprime representatives. The statement records that their descent
preserves the same product decomposition.