The low-degree Tate pairing with a character class #
For a finite group G of order n, the cup product pairs its additive abelianization,
identified with Ĥ⁻²(G, ℤ) (TauCeti.TateCohomology.HNegTwoAddEquivAbelianization), with the
connecting class δχ ∈ Ĥ²(G, ℤ) of a character χ : Gᵃᵇ → ℚ/ℤ, landing in
Ĥ⁰(G, ℤ) = ℤ/nℤ. This file computes the pairing: for σ ∈ Gᵃᵇ, the product σ ∪ δχ is the
class of -k, for any integer k with k / n ≡ χ(σ) (mod 1)
(TauCeti.TateCohomology.map_leftUnitor_cup_characterConnectingClass). In other words, the
pairing Gᵃᵇ × Hom(Gᵃᵇ, ℚ/ℤ) → (1/n)ℤ/ℤ that it induces is (σ, χ) ↦ -χ(σ).
The computation has three steps.
- For
x ∈ Ĥ⁻²(G, ℤ), the classx ∪ δχis the Tate connecting map of the sequence0 → ℤ → ℚ → ℚ/ℤ → 0, tensored on the left withℤ, applied to the degree(-2, 1)productx ∪ χwith the degree-one class ofχ. The sign is positive becausexhas even degree (TauCeti.TateCohomology.cup_characterConnectingClass_eq_tateδ). - The degree
(-2, 1)product is evaluation of the character up to sign:σ ∪ χis the class inĤ⁻¹(G, ℤ ⊗ ℚ/ℤ)of1 ⊗ (-χ(σ))(TauCeti.TateCohomology.cup_character_eq_HNegOneπ). The product is defined by shiftingχto the invariantg ↦ χ(g)of the first upward dimension shift ofℚ/ℤ(TauCeti.TateCohomology.characterDimensionShift), soσ ∪ χis the connecting map of the upward shifting sequence applied to the image ofσ. Through first homology, the class ofσ = gis the cycle[g] ⊗ (1 ⊗ (h ↦ χ(h))), whose boundary, computed with the homological differential[g] ⊗ m ↦ g⁻¹ • m - m, is the constant functionh ↦ -χ(g). This is where the sign comes from. - The connecting map
Ĥ⁻¹(G, ℤ ⊗ ℚ/ℤ) → Ĥ⁰(G, ℤ ⊗ ℤ)lifts1 ⊗ (-χ(σ)) = 1 ⊗ (-k/n)toℤ ⊗ ℚand takes its norm, which is1 ⊗ (-k).
This is the low-degree normalization through which a character detects the Artin map of a class
formation. Its Nakayama isomorphism is induced by cup product with the fundamental class in degree
-2, and Artin reciprocity is the inverse of that isomorphism.
Main results #
TauCeti.TateCohomology.cup_characterConnectingClass_eq_tateδ:x ∪ δχis the tensored connecting map applied to the degree(-2, 1)productx ∪ χ.TauCeti.TateCohomology.cup_character_eq_HNegOneπ: forσ ∈ Gᵃᵇ, the degree(-2, 1)productσ ∪ χis the class of1 ⊗ (-χ(σ))inĤ⁻¹(G, ℤ ⊗ ℚ/ℤ).TauCeti.TateCohomology.map_leftUnitor_cup_characterConnectingClass: forσ ∈ Gᵃᵇ, the productσ ∪ δχ ∈ Ĥ⁰(G, ℤ)is-ktimes the class of1wheneverk / |G| ≡ χ(σ) (mod 1).TauCeti.TateCohomology.toRatAddCircle_map_leftUnitor_cup_characterConnectingClass: under the canonical embeddingĤ⁰(G, ℤ) = ℤ/|G|ℤ → ℚ/ℤ, this product is-χ(σ).
References #
- J. W. S. Cassels and A. Fröhlich (eds.), Algebraic Number Theory, Chapter IV (Atiyah–Wall), §7.
- E. Artin and J. Tate, Class Field Theory, Chapter XIV, §3.
- J.-P. Serre, Local Fields, Chapter XI, §3.
Cup product with the connecting class δχ is the connecting map of the tensored
sequence applied to the degree (-2, 1) cup product with the character class. The sign is positive
because the left degree is even.
The degree (-2, 1) cup product with a character is evaluation, up to sign. For
σ ∈ Gᵃᵇ = Ĥ⁻²(G, ℤ) and a character χ : Gᵃᵇ → ℚ/ℤ, read as a class in Ĥ¹(G, ℚ/ℤ), the
product σ ∪ χ is the class of the norm-zero element 1 ⊗ (-χ(σ)) in Ĥ⁻¹(G, ℤ ⊗ ℚ/ℤ).
The Tate pairing of Gᵃᵇ with a character class. For σ ∈ Gᵃᵇ = Ĥ⁻²(G, ℤ), a character
χ : Gᵃᵇ → ℚ/ℤ and an integer k with k / |G| ≡ χ(σ) (mod 1), the cup product σ ∪ δχ,
read in Ĥ⁰(G, ℤ) through the left unitor, is -k times the class of 1.
Under the canonical embedding Ĥ⁰(G, ℤ) = ℤ/|G|ℤ → ℚ/ℤ, the Tate pairing of
σ ∈ Gᵃᵇ with the connecting class of a character χ is the negative evaluation -χ(σ).