Problems in algebraic number theory
algebraic integersclass groupclass number formula for quadratic fieldsDedekind domainsDirichlet's unit theoremelementary number theoryFermat's little theoremideal class groupintegral basesMinkowski boundnumber fieldsprimes in arithmetic progressionsunique factorization of integersunits
Problem books (00A07) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to number theory (11-01) Multiplicative structure; Euclidean algorithm; greatest common divisors (11A05) Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Primes in congruence classes (11N13) Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Quadratic extensions (11R11) Units and factorization (11R27) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)
This book contains about 500 problems with solutions. It is aimed at students familiar with undergraduate algebra who would like to acquaint themselves with the basics of algebraic number theory. Each chapter contains a few theorems with proofs, followed by a number of related exercises. The book covers topics ranging from elementary number theory (such as the unique factorization of integers or Fermat's little theorem) to Dirichlet's theorem about primes in arithmetic progressions and his class number formula for quadratic fields, and it treats standard material such as Dedekind domains, integral bases, the decomposition of primes not dividing the index, the class group, the Minkowski bound and Dirichlet's unit theorem. The fact that most of the exercises are fairly standard (``compute an integral basis, the different, the class group etc. of some number field) is certainly appealing to beginners, while students who already have some grasp of the basic techniques will find exercises related to applications of the ABC conjecture, or on Euclidean rings, continued fractions, and quadratic and cubic reciprocity that cannot be found in other textbooks. In any introduction to algebraic number theory there are topics that some reader will miss; the present authors chose not to address Hilbert's theory of ramification or the theory of local fields. This is not too severe an omission given that these topics are dealt with in the exercise-rich books of \textit{D. Marcus} [Number fields, Springer-Verlag (1977; Zbl 0383.12001)] and \textit{J. W. S. Cassels} [Local fields, Lond. Math. Soc. Student Texts 3, Cambridge Univ. Press (1986; Zbl 0595.12006)] that anyone who has caught fire by working through the book under review may turn to. The first edition of a book always contains a few misprints and inaccuracies, and this book is no exception (see e.g. the discussion of the class group in the strict sense on p. 113 or the proof of the cubic reciprocity law on pp. 119-120). But these are minor complaints about an otherwise carefully written text, and the reviewer is certain that many students will benefit from this pathway into the fascinating realm of algebraic number theory.
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