The narrow Picard group of a number-field order #
The narrow Picard group identifies invertible fractional ideals only when they differ by a principal ideal with a totally positive generator. Forgetting positivity gives a canonical surjection onto the wide Picard group. The same construction for the maximal order is the narrow class group; here the fractional ideals belong to an arbitrary order and only its invertible ideals enter the quotient.
References #
- G. S. Kopp and J. C. Lagarias, Class Field Theory for Orders of Number Fields, §2.
TauCeti/NumberTheory/NumberField/NarrowClassGroup/Basic.lean, for the maximal-order quotient and its forgetful map; the construction here adapts that API to arbitrary orders.
The subgroup of invertible fractional ideals generated by totally positive field elements.
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An invertible fractional ideal is narrowly principal precisely when it has a totally positive generator in the ambient field.
The narrow Picard group of an order: invertible fractional ideals modulo those with a totally positive principal generator.
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The narrow Picard class of an invertible fractional ideal.
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Every narrow Picard class has an invertible fractional-ideal representative.
An invertible fractional ideal has trivial narrow class exactly when it has a totally positive principal generator.
Two invertible fractional ideals have the same narrow Picard class exactly when they differ by a principal ideal with a totally positive generator.
A homomorphism on invertible ideals that kills the narrowly principal ideals descends to the narrow Picard group.
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The descended homomorphism agrees with the original one on ideal classes.
A homomorphism out of the narrow Picard group is determined by its values on the classes of invertible fractional ideals.
The narrow class of the principal fractional ideal generated by a nonzero field element.
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The narrow principal class is the class of the corresponding principal fractional ideal.
A principal narrow Picard class is trivial exactly when an order unit rescales its generator to a totally positive element.
A totally positive element generates the trivial narrow Picard class.
Every principal narrow Picard class has order dividing two, since a square is totally positive at every real place.
Forgetting the positivity condition gives the canonical map from the narrow to the wide Picard group of an order.
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On an invertible fractional ideal, the forgetful map gives its wide Picard class.
Every wide Picard class has a narrow Picard preimage.
The narrow class of a principal ideal maps to the trivial wide Picard class.
A representative maps to the trivial wide Picard class precisely when it is principal.
The kernel of the forgetful map consists exactly of narrow classes of principal ideals.