Minimal indices of pure cubic fields (Q2634768)

Let \(K\) be an algebraic number field with discriminant \(d(K)\), \(O_{K}\) be the ring of integers of \(K\), \(\alpha \in O_{K}\) be such that \(K = \mathbb{Q}(\alpha)\), \(f(X)\) be the minimal polynomial of \(\alpha\) over \(\mathbb{Q}\) and \(D(\alpha)\) be the discriminant of \(f(X)\). The index of \(\alpha\) is \(\mathrm{ind}(\alpha) = \sqrt{\frac{D(\alpha)}{d(K)}}\) which is a positive integer. The field index of \(K\) is \(i(K) = \mathrm{gcd}_{\alpha \in O_{K}} (\mathrm{ind}(\alpha))\) and the minimal index of of \(K\) is \(m(K) = \min_{\alpha \in O_{K}} (\mathrm{ind}(\alpha))\). In the case of a cubic field, it is known that \(i(K) = 1\) or \(2\) and the minimal index of \(K\) can be arbitrary large. In this paper, the authors prove that every cube-free integer occurs as the minimal index of infinitely many pure cubic fields.