An expression for primes and its application to K₂ Q

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2011.10.002MaRDI QIDQ714114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bin Du, Hourong Qin

Publication date 19 October 2012

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2011.10.002

zbMATH Keywords

prime numberssymbols

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primes represented by polynomials; other multiplicative structures of polynomial values (11N32) (K)-theory of global fields (11R70) Symbols and arithmetic ((K)-theoretic aspects) (19F15)

Review text

The authors use elementary arguments to prove the following interesting number-theoretic theorem: If \(p\) is a prime congruent to 1 modulo 8 then there exists \(n\geq 1\) and integers \(a_i\), \(b_i\), \(c_i\), \(d_i\), \(i= 1,\dots, n\) such that \[ p= \prod^n_{i=1} {a^4_1+ b^4_1\over c^4_i+ d^4_i}. \] The authors then combine this result with calculations with symbols to deduce that the group of elements of order dividing 8 in \(K_2(\mathbb{Q})\) is generated by elements of the form \(\{a,\Phi_n(a)\}\), \(n= 2,4,8\) (where \(\Phi_n(x)\) denotes the \(n\)th cyclotomic polynomial).

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Cited in

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• A note on the algebra \(P(n)_ *(P(n))\) for the prime 2
• On cyclotomic elements and cyclotomic subgroups in \(K_{2}\) of a field
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