On computing discriminants of subfields of Q(_p^r)

DOI10.1006/JNTH.2002.2796MaRDI QIDQ1864863zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Trajano Pires da Nóbrega Neto, J. Carmelo Interlando, José Othon Dantas Lopes

Publication date 23 March 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jnth.2002.2796

zbMATH Keywords

conductorscyclotomic fieldsDirichlet charactersdiscriminants of abelian number fieldsHasse conductor-discriminant formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cyclotomic extensions (11R18) Other abelian and metabelian extensions (11R20) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Review text

Let \(p\) be an odd prime, \(r\) a positive integer and \(K\) a subfield of the \(p^r\)th cyclotomic field \(\mathbb Q(\zeta_{p^r})\). Then the absolute degree of \(K\) is of the form \(up^j\), where \(u\) is a divisor of \(p-1\) and \(j\) is an integer satisfying \(0\leq j\leq r-1\). Due to the well-known cyclicity of the Galois group of \(\mathbb Q(\zeta_{p^r})/\mathbb Q\), its absolute degree fully characterizes \(K\) among the subfields of \(\mathbb Q(\zeta_{p^r})\). The main result of the paper consists in the computation of the discriminant of \(K\) via Hasse conductor-discriminant formula. Is is shown that the absolute value of the discriminant of \(K\) is equal to \(p^a\), where \(a=u((j+2)p^j-(p^{j+1}-1)/(p-1))-1\).

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