The Chevalley-Bass Theorem

arXiv2305.05041MaRDI QIDQ6435835FDOQ6435835

Authors: Yuri Bilu 

Publication date: 8 May 2023

Abstract: This is an exposition of a theorem due to Chevalley (1951) and Bass (1965). Let $K$ be a finitely generated field. Then there exists a positive integer $Lambda$, depending only on $K$, such that for every positive integer $n$ the following holds: if $alphainK$ is a $Lambdan$th power in the cyclotomic extension $K(zet{a}_{Lambdan})$, then $alpha$ is an $n$th power in $K$. We also give explicit expressions for a suitable $Lambda$ of two kinds: one in terms of the degree of the maximal abelian subfield of $K$, the other in terms of the discriminant of this subfield.

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