Noether's problem for abelian extensions of cyclic \(p\)-groups
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Noether's problem for abelian extensions of cyclic \(p\)-groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 1326.14027
author: Ivo M. Michailov
published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2014-10-10T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7284
review text: Let \(K\) be a field and let \(G\) be a finite group. Let \(L = K(x_g : g \in G)\) be the rational function field whose indeterminates are indexed by the elements of \(G\), and let \(G\) act on \(L\) as a group of \(K\)-automorphisms by \(g(x_h) = x_{gh}\) for any \(g, h \in G\). Noether's problem asks whether the subfield \(L^G\) of \(L\) fixed by \(G\) is rational over \(K\), i.e., a purely transcendental extension of \(K\). The paper under review starts with a survey of the existing literature on Noether's problem, and then establishes the rationality of \(L^G\) in new situations. In the two main results of the paper, \(G\) is assumed to be a \(p\)-group of order \(p^n\) and exponent \(p^e\) and having an abelian normal subgroup \(H\) such that \(G/H\) is cyclic of order \(p^t\), and \(K\) is assumed to be either of characteristic \(p\) or contains a primitive \(p^e\)-th root of unity. The first main result establishes the rationality of \(L^G\) when \(t=1\) under additional conditions, and the second main result establishes the rationality of \(L^G\) when \(n \leq 6\). In view of a known result by \textit{D. J. Saltman} [J. Algebra 258, No. 2, 507--534 (2002; Zbl 1099.13013)], the latter result does not hold if \(n=9\), leaving the cases \(n=7\) and \(n=8\) open.
reviewed by: Mowaffaq Hajja
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14E08
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14M20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 13A50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 12F12
zbMATH DE Number: 6353684
zbMATH Keywords: Noether's problem
zbMATH Keywords: rational field extension
zbMATH Keywords: purely transcendental
zbMATH Keywords: \(p\)-group
zbMATH Keywords: meta-abelian group
zbMATH Keywords: action
zbMATH Keywords: field automorphism
zbMATH Keywords: rational function field
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W3101243607
arXiv ID: 1301.7284
DOI: 10.2140/PJM.2014.270.167
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