Multiplicative groups in some infinite algebraic number fields

DOI10.1007/BF01190665MaRDI QIDQ1112104zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kuniaki Horie

Publication date 1990

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01190665

zbMATH Keywords

CM-fieldmultiplicative group of algebraic number fieldtotally real algebraic number fieldunit group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cyclotomic extensions (11R18) Units and factorization (11R27) Totally real fields (11R80) Algebraic number theory: global fields (11R99)

Review text

An abelian group A is called regular when the factor group of A modulo the torsion subgroup of A is a free abelian group. This paper proves that if F is an algebraic number field whose Galois closure contains only a finite number of roots of unity, then the multiplicative group of F is regular. In particular, the multiplicative group of every totally real algebraic number field becomes regular. It also follows that the unit group of every CM-field is regular. On the other hand, the multiplicative group of the maximal CM-field turns out to be isomorphic to a direct sum of a regular group and countably many infinite copies of the additive group of the rational numbers. Incidentally, it is proved that for any prime number p, if K is a CM- field with all roots of unity of p-power orders, then the Galois group of the maximal p-extension of K over K is isomorphic to a free pro-p-group with countably many free generators.

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• Fields with indecomposable multiplicative groups
• Multiplicative groups of fields and hereditarily irreducible polynomials
• The Multiplicative Groups of Quasifields
• THE FIELDS OF REAL AND COMPLEX NUMBERS WITH A SMALL MULTIPLICATIVE GROUP
• Divisible multiplicative groups of fields
• Is there an infinite field whose multiplicative group is indecomposable?
• Multiplicative structure in stable expansions of the group of integers

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