On optimal embeddings and trees

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Abstract: We apply the theory of Bruhat-Tits trees to the study of optimal embeddings of two and three dimensional commutative orders into quaternion algebras. Specifically, we determine how many conjugacy classes of global Eichler orders in a quaternion algebra yield optimal representations of such orders. This completes the previous work by C. Maclachlan, who considered only Eichler orders of square free level and integral domains as sub-orders. The same technique is used in the second part of this work to compute local embedding numbers, extending previous results by J. Brzezinski.


Let $K$ be an algebraic number field, and let $A$ be a quaternion algebra over $K$ satisfying the Eichler condition. Let $L\subset A$ be a quadratic extension of $K$ with a (full) order $\Omega$. The selectivity problem asks whether any Eichler order $E$ in $A$ contains a conjugate of $\Omega$. An embedding $\Omega\hookrightarrow E$ is said to be optimal if $E\cap L=\Omega$. Extending previous work of Eichler and Chinburg-Friedman, \textit{C. Maclachlan} [J. Number Theory 128, No. 10, 2852--2860 (2008; Zbl 1220.11140)] determined the existence of optimal embeddings in case that $E$ is of square-free level. In the paper under review, this restriction is removed. Some results of \textit{J. Brzezinski} [Comment. Math. Helv. 66, No. 2, 302--318 (1991; Zbl 0733.11047)] on local embedding numbers are extended.











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