Representation of units in cyclotomic function fields

Units and factorization (11R27) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Cyclotomic function fields (class groups, Bernoulli objects, etc.) (11R60)

Abstract: Hilbert's Satz 90 tells us that for a given cyclic extension

K / k

, a unit of norm

1

in

K

can be written as a quotient of conjugate elements in

K

. For the extensions

m a t h b b Q (z e t a_{p}) / m a t h b b Q

with

p

prime

> 3

, Newman proved a refinement of Hilbert's Satz 90 that gives a sufficient and necessary condition for which a unit of norm

1

in

m a t h b b Q (z e t a_{p})

can be written as a quotient of conjugate units. In order to obtain this result, Newman proved a stronger result that gives a unique representation of units of norm

1

as a product of a power of

d f r a c 1 - z e t a_{p}^{e} 1 - z e t a_{p}

with a quotient of conjugate units, where

e

is a given primitive root modulo

p

. In this paper, we obtain a function field analogue of Newman's result for the

w p

-th cyclotomic function field extensions

m a t h b b K_{w p} / m a t h b b F_{q} (T)

, where

w p

is a monic prime in

m a t h b b F_{q} [T]

. As a consequence, we proved a refinement of Hilbert's Satz 90 for the extensions

m a t h b b K_{w p} / m a t h b b F_{q} (T)

that gives a sufficient and necessary condition for which a unit of norm

1

in

m a t h b b K_{w p}

can be written as a quotient of conjugate units.

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