The narrow Picard group of an order as a quotient of a ray class group #
Let O be an order in a number field K with conductor ๐ฃ, and let ๐ฃโ be the modulus with
finite part ๐ฃ and every real place (NumberFieldOrder.narrowConductorModulus). Taking the
narrow Picard class of the contraction J โฉ O of an ideal J of ๐ K prime to ๐ฃ gives a
monoid homomorphism NumberFieldOrder.narrowPicClass to NarrowPic O.
Its kernel consists of the principal ideals ฮฒ ๐ K with a totally positive generator ฮฒ โ O. In
particular the ideals with a totally positive generator ฮฒ โก 1 mod ๐ฃ die in NarrowPic O, so
narrowPicClass factors through the ray class group of ๐ฃโ. The result is the congruence
description of the narrow Picard group of an order:
NarrowPic O โ I_K(๐ฃ) / Pโบ_{K,O}(๐ฃ),
where I_K(๐ฃ) is the group of fractional ideals of ๐ K prime to ๐ฃ and Pโบ_{K,O}(๐ฃ) is its
subgroup generated by the principal ideals ฮฒ ๐ K with ฮฒ โ O totally positive and coprime to
๐ฃ. Here it is stated as the surjective homomorphism NumberFieldOrder.rayClassToNarrowPic from
the ray class group of ๐ฃโ, whose kernel is the image of Pโบ_{K,O}(๐ฃ). Since that ray class
group is finite, so is NarrowPic O.
Forgetting positivity, rayClassToNarrowPic lies over NumberFieldOrder.rayClassToPic, the
corresponding description of the wide Picard group. Surjectivity reduces to that of the wide map
and to realizing every principal narrow class, which depends only on the signs of a generator at
the real places, by a nonzero algebraic integer congruent to one modulo ๐ฃ. The latter is weak
approximation at the primes dividing ๐ฃ together with all real places.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.NumberFieldOrder.narrowConductorModulus: the conductor of an order together with every real place, as a modulus.TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.NumberFieldOrder.narrowPicClass: the narrow Picard class of the contraction of an ideal of๐ Kprime to the conductor.TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.NumberFieldOrder.rayClassToNarrowPic: the surjection from the ray class group of the narrow conductor modulus ontoNarrowPic O.
Main results #
TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.NumberFieldOrder.narrowPicClass_eq_one_iff: an ideal of๐ Kprime to the conductor has trivial narrow Picard class exactly when it is generated by a totally positive element of the order.TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.NumberFieldOrder.rayClassToNarrowPic_surjective: every narrow Picard class comes from a ray class of the narrow conductor modulus.TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.NumberFieldOrder.mem_ker_rayClassToNarrowPic: the kernel ofrayClassToNarrowPicconsists of the ray classes of the ideals generated by totally positive elements ofO.TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.NumberFieldOrder.narrowToPic_comp_rayClassToNarrowPic: forgetting positivity,rayClassToNarrowPiclies overrayClassToPic.TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.NumberFieldOrder.finite_narrowPic: the narrow Picard group of an order is finite.
References #
- G. S. Kopp and J. C. Lagarias, Class Field Theory for Orders of Number Fields, ยง2.
- D. A. Cox, Primes of the Form xยฒ + nyยฒ, ยง7 (the quadratic case).
The narrow conductor modulus #
The conductor of an order as a modulus of K together with every real place. Its ray
class group surjects onto the narrow Picard group of the order.
Instances For
The conductor modulus divides the narrow conductor modulus: they have the same finite part, and the latter has more real places.
The narrow conductor modulus of the maximal order is the narrow modulus.
Narrow Picard classes of ideals prime to the conductor #
The narrow Picard class of an ideal J of ๐ K prime to the conductor: the class in
NarrowPic O of its contraction J โฉ O, an invertible ideal of O.
Instances For
The narrow Picard class of J is the narrow class of its contraction to the order.
Forgetting positivity, the narrow Picard class of J is its Picard class.
An ideal of ๐ K prime to the conductor and generated by an element ฮฒ of the order has the
narrow Picard class of the principal ideal ฮฒ O.
The kernel of the narrow Picard class map. An ideal of ๐ K prime to the conductor has
trivial narrow Picard class exactly when it is generated by a totally positive element of the
order.
An ideal of ๐ K with trivial ray class modulo the narrow conductor modulus has trivial narrow
Picard class: it is generated by a totally positive element congruent to one modulo the conductor,
and such an element lies in the order.
The narrow Picard group as a quotient of a ray class group #
The narrow Picard group of an order as a quotient of a ray class group. The homomorphism
from the ray class group of the narrow conductor modulus onto NarrowPic O sending the ray class
of an ideal J of ๐ K prime to the conductor to the narrow Picard class of its contraction
J โฉ O.
Instances For
The ray class of J maps to the narrow Picard class of its contraction to the order.
Composing rayClassToNarrowPic with the ray class map gives the narrow Picard class map.
Forgetting positivity. The narrow description of NarrowPic O lies over the description
of Pic O: the square formed with narrowToPic and the transition map classMap commutes.
Every narrow Picard class comes from a ray class of the narrow conductor modulus.
Every class of NarrowPic O is the narrow Picard class of an ideal of ๐ K prime to the
conductor.
The congruence description of the narrow Picard group. A ray class of the narrow conductor
modulus maps to the trivial narrow Picard class exactly when it is the ray class of an ideal of
๐ K generated by a totally positive element of the order.
The narrow Picard group of an order is finite, being a quotient of the finite ray class group of its narrow conductor modulus.