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A class number relation in Frobenius extensions of number fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Colin D. Walter
Colin D. Walter
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Department of Mathematics, University College, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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Let K/k be a normal extension of algebraic number fields whose Galois group G is a Frobenius group. Then K/k is said to be a Frobenius extension. Most of the structure of the unit group and of the ideal class group of K is determined by that; of the subfields fixed by the Frobenius kernel N and by a complement F. Here this is investigated when G is a maximal or metacyclic Frobenius group. In particular, the results apply firstly to the normal closure of where a ∊ k and p is a rational prime, and, secondly, when G is a dihedral group of order 2n for an odd integer n. A. Scholz, taking n = p = 3, was the first to consider this problem.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 216 - 225
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Copyright © University College London 1977

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