New characterizations of Kronecker equivalence (Q1896590)

Two extensions \(K/k\) and \(L/k\) of an algebraic number field \(k\) are said to be Kronecker equivalent if the sets of prime ideals in \(k\) having a prime divisor of first degree in \(K/k\) resp. \(L/k\) coincide up to finitely many exceptions. The author gives several new criteria for Kronecker equivalence, one of them stating that for every prime ideal of \(k\) the minimal degrees of prime ideals lying over it in \(K\) resp. \(L\) are the same. Moreover he extends the notion of Kronecker equivalence to the case of finite families of extensions and relates it to the notion of arithmetically equivalent fields. The final part of the paper contains some applications to the study of class-group. In particular it is shown that the image under the norm-mapping of the class-groups of Kronecker equivalent fields coincide.