Steinitz classes and partial genera of unimodular lattices over imaginary-quadratic fields

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2017.01.004MaRDI QIDQ529464zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Jürgens, Marc C. Zimmermann

Publication date 18 May 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03297

zbMATH Keywords

mass formulaSteinitz classHermitian unimodular latticeimaginary-quadratic field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic extensions (11R11) Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Class numbers of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E41)

Abstract: In this paper we first of all determine all possible genera of (odd and even) definite unimodular lattices over an imaginary-quadratic field. The main questions are whether the partial class numbers of lattices with given Steinitz class within one genus are equal for all occuring Steinitz classes and whether the partial masses of those partial genera are equal. We show that the answer to the first question in general is "no" by giving a counter example, while the answer to the second question is "yes" by proving a mass formula for partial masses. Finally, we determine a list of all single-class partial genera and show that a partial genus consists of only one class if and only if the whole genus consists of only one class.

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