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TauCeti.NumberTheory.NumberField.CanonicalEmbedding.IdealLattice

The index of one ideal lattice in another #

An invertible fractional ideal I of a number field K is a full ℤ-lattice in K, and its image mixedEmbedding.idealLattice K I is a full lattice in the mixed space. If J ≤ I are two such ideals, the index of J in I is the ratio of their absolute norms. This is the lattice-theoretic meaning of the norm of a fractional ideal: for an integral ideal 𝔞, the lattice of I * 𝔞 has index N 𝔞 in the lattice of I, which is how congruence conditions modulo 𝔞 are counted among the lattice points of I.

The index is computed in K by NumberField.relIndex_fractionalIdeal_eq_absNorm_div_absNorm, and transported to the mixed space along the injective embedding.

Main results #

The ideal lattice of I is the image of I under the mixed embedding, as an additive subgroup.

The index of one ideal lattice in another is the ratio of the norms. For invertible fractional ideals J ≤ I of a number field, the lattice of J has index absNorm J / absNorm I in the lattice of I.

The index of the lattice of I * 𝔞. For an integral ideal 𝔞, the lattice of I * 𝔞 has index N 𝔞 in the lattice of I.

The covolume of the lattice of I * 𝔞 is N 𝔞 times the covolume of the lattice of I.