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TauCeti.NumberTheory.NumberField.LocalGlobal.Semilocal.Norm.Units

Norm equations in the local étale algebras #

For a number-field extension L/K, the local norm is the norm of K_v ⊗[K] L. The semilocal comparisons identify its image with products of norms from all completions above the place, including split algebras and real and complex places.

Main results #

References #

The local decompositions are TauCeti.semilocalEquiv and TauCeti.GlobalNumberFields.infiniteSemilocalEquiv; unit-norm surjectivity is TauCeti.map_normUnits_unitFiltration.

A unit is an infinite local norm exactly when it is a product of norms from the completions above the place. Real and complex places are both retained.

Local norms at a finite place of degree one. If some completion L_w of L above the finite place v has degree one over K_v, then every element of K_vˣ is a norm from the local étale algebra K_v ⊗[K] L.

Local norms at an infinite place of degree one. If some completion L_w of L above the infinite place v has degree one over K_v, then every element of K_vˣ is a norm from the local étale algebra K_v ⊗[K] L.

n-th powers are local norms at an infinite place. If n kills Gal(L/K), then every n-th power of K_vˣ is a norm from the local étale algebra K_v ⊗[K] L: the local degree [L_w : K_v] is the order of the decomposition group of w, a cyclic group of order 1 or 2, so it divides n, and a ^ [L_w : K_v] is the norm of a.

Complex places #

Every unit is a local norm at a complex place. At a complex place w of K every unit of K_w ≅ ℂ is the norm of a unit of the local étale algebra K_w ⊗[K] L: it is an [L : K]-th power, and the [L : K]-th power of b ∈ K_wˣ is the norm of b ⊗ 1.