On number fields with nontrivial subfields

DOI10.1142/S1793042111004204MaRDI QIDQ3011058zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Widmer

Publication date 27 June 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3575

zbMATH Keywords

adelic-Lipschitz SystemscountingheightNorthcott's theoremnumber fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heights (11G50) Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Density theorems (11R45)

Abstract: What is the probability for a number field of composite degree $d$ to have a nontrivial subfield? As the reader might expect the answer heavily depends on the interpretation of probability. We show that if the fields are enumerated by the smallest height of their generators the probability is zero, at least if $d>6$. This is in contrast to what one expects when the fields are enumerated by the discriminant. The main result of this article is an estimate for the number of algebraic numbers of degree $d=en$ and bounded height which generate a field that contains an unspecified subfield of degree $e$. If $n>max{e}^2+e,10$ we get the correct asymptotics as the height tends to infinity.

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