Nonunique factorization and principalization in number fields

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-11053-0MaRDI QIDQ3092828zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kimball Martin

Publication date 11 October 2011

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2255

zbMATH Keywords

principalizationquadratic fieldsclass groupnonunique factorization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic extensions (11R11) Units and factorization (11R27) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Abstract: We give a precise description of how the class group of a number field measures the failure of unique factorization in its ring of integers. Specifically, following ideas of Kummer, we determine the structure of all irreducible factorizations of an element in the ring of integers of a number field, and give a combinatorial description for the number of such factorizations. In certain cases, we show how quadratic forms can explicitly provide all such factorizations.

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