4.II.20G

Number Fields | Part II, 2005

State Dedekind's theorem on the factorisation of rational primes into prime ideals.

A rational prime is said to ramify totally in a field with degree nn if it is the nn-th power of a prime ideal in the field. Show that, in the quadratic field Q(d)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{d}) with dd a squarefree integer, a rational prime ramifies totally if and only if it divides the discriminant of the field.

Verify that the same holds in the cyclotomic field Q(ζ)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta), where ζ=e2πi/q\zeta=e^{2 \pi i / q} with qq an odd prime, and also in the cubic field Q(23)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{2}).

[[ The cases d≡2,3( mod 4)d \equiv 2,3(\bmod 4) and d≡1( mod 4)d \equiv 1(\bmod 4) for the quadratic field should be carefully distinguished. It can be assumed that Q(ζ)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta) has a basis 1,ζ,…,ζq−21, \zeta, \ldots, \zeta^{q-2} and discriminant (−1)(q−1)/2qq−1(-1)^{(q-1) / 2} q^{q-1}, and that Q(23)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{2}) has a basis 1,23,(23)21, \sqrt[3]{2},(\sqrt[3]{2})^{2} and discriminant −108.]\left.-108 .\right]

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