Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 81 3 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
There is no infinite component in the modulus . The ordinary ideal class group of is trivial, and its unit group is . The ray class exact sequence therefore givesConcretely, a fractional ideal prime to has a rational generator with . Reducing modulo is well-defined up to multiplication by the units . Its ray class is trivial precisely when one of the two generators is congruent to one. Thus the quotient has the two classes and . No positivity restriction is imposed on a generator.
To identify the corresponding field, put . The maximal real subfield of the fifth cyclotomic field is fixed by complex conjugation, the element of . For a prime , the Frobenius automorphism of is . Its restriction to thus corresponds exactly to the residue class of modulo . Multiplicativity extends this to the Artin reciprocity map on all fractional ideals prime to , whose kernel is exactly . Its field discriminant also confirms that is unramified outside ; moreover is a totally real number field. The uniqueness in the Main theorem of class field theory now gives
Including the real place changes the ray class group: a principal generator must then be positive as well as congruent to one. The residue and signature group of a modulus givesHere the isomorphism sends to . Consequently , of degree four. The finite modulus gives the real quadratic field; the modulus with the real place gives the full cyclotomic field. The printed finite-modulus assertion needs no correction.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 2 20G c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Put and . The maximal real subfield of the fifth cyclotomic field is . The roots of unity in a rational cyclotomic field show that the roots of unity in are exactly .
Let . For every embedding ,Thus the kernel of the logarithmic unit embedding implies that is a root of unity. Since conjugation acts trivially modulo the prime element , we have . Among the tenth roots of unity this excludes the elements , so . Squaring is a bijection on this group of order five, so choose a root of unity with . Then is fixed by conjugation and is therefore a unit of .
The units of the quadratic field Q square root of five are , where . Absorbing the sign and into proves