Gauss problem for function fields

DOI10.1006/JNTH.2000.2523MaRDI QIDQ5928000zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gilles Lachaud, Serge Vlăduţ

Publication date 19 March 2001

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a2cb4089761fdf67cc49417fafd17f487e788520

zbMATH Keywords

class field towerclass numbercongruence function fieldsDrinfeld modular curvesGauss conjectureideal class numbermodular curvesring of \(S\)-integers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic aspects of modular and Shimura varieties (11G18) Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MSC%2011G30%20%22Curves+of+arbitrary+genus+or+genus+%28%0D%0Ae+1%29+over+global+fields%22 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Class field theory (11R37) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Cyclotomic function fields (class groups, Bernoulli objects, etc.) (11R60) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40)

Review text

The Gauss conjecture states the existence of infinitely many real quadratic number fields with class number one. The weak Gauss conjecture states the existence of infinitely many number fields having class number one. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper under review, the authors generalize the Gauss conjecture as follows. Consider pairs \((K, S)\) with \(K\) a global field and \(S\) a finite nonempty set of places of \(K\) containing the archimedean ones in the number field case. Fix a pair \((K_0, S_0)\) with the ring of \(S_0\)-integers principal. Then the main conjecture is that there are infinitely many pairs \((K,S)\) such that: (1) all the places of \(S_0\) split completely in \(K\), (2) \(K/K_0\) is of degree two and (3) the ring of \(S\)-integers is principal. The Gauss conjecture is just the case where \(K_0= {\mathbb Q}\) and \(S=\{P_\infty\}\) where \(P_\infty\) is the usual absolute value of the field of rational numbers. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe authors consider several cases of the main conjecture. In particular the case of complex quadratic fields, the case of hyperelliptic function fields and function fields which are Galois extensions of a given one or with certain ramification conditions. Among several other results, they prove that for \(q=4, 9, 25, 49\) or \(169\) there are infinitely many extensions \((K,S)\) of \(({\mathbb F}_q (T), \{P\})\) such that \(P\) splits completely in \(K\), \(K/{\mathbb F}_q(T)\) is a Galois extension and the ring of \(S\)-integers is principal. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFrom the geometric point of view, they show that if \(X\) is a curve of genus \(g_X\geq 2\) over \({\mathbb F}_q\) such that \({|S|\over g_X - 1} > \sqrt{q} -1\), then the class field tower of \((X, S)\) is finite. A similar result is obtained for Drinfeld modular curves. Finally, they apply classical and Drinfeld modular curves to solve cases of the main problem discussed at the beginning of the paper.

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