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TauCeti.NumberTheory.NumberField.Global.Ideles.Norm.Compact

Compactness of the norm-one idele class group #

For a number field K, the norm-one idele class group C_K¹ = 𝕀_K¹ / Kˣ is compact. This is the adelic form of the two finiteness theorems of algebraic number theory: the finiteness of the ideal class group and Dirichlet's unit theorem. The full idele class group is not compact, since the idele class norm maps it onto ℝ>0; C_K¹ is the kernel of that map.

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References #

The norm-one idele class group is compact. This is the adelic form of the finiteness of the class group together with Dirichlet's unit theorem.

The norm-one idele class group is a compact space.