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 #
NumberField.mixedEmbedding.relIndex_idealLattice: the index of the lattice ofJin the lattice ofIisabsNorm J / absNorm I.NumberField.mixedEmbedding.relIndex_idealLattice_mul_mk0: the lattice ofI * 𝔞has indexN 𝔞in the lattice ofI.NumberField.mixedEmbedding.covolume_idealLattice_mul_mk0: the covolume of the lattice ofI * 𝔞isN 𝔞times the covolume of the lattice ofI.
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.