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A Lubin–Tate formal group associated with a Lubin–Tate series is the unique one-dimensional commutative formal group law over the valuation ring for which is an endomorphism with linear coefficient the chosen uniformizer . The Lubin–Tate functional equation lemma constructs the law and the endomorphisms for every , with linear term . Their addition is given by the law, and their multiplication by composition. Thus the valuation ring acts on the group; .
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For a uniformizer of a non-Archimedean local field with residue field of cardinality , a Lubin–Tate series is a series satisfyingIt determines the associated two-variable Lubin–Tate formal group. A useful example is . For and , the choice gives the formal multiplicative group and the Lubin–Tate cyclotomic example.
If a non-Archimedean local field has uniformizer , valuation ring , maximal ideal and residue field , thenThe first factor records the discrete valuation, the Teichmuller representatives split reduction , and is the group of principal units.
For every positive integer ,Under Local Artin reciprocity, the cyclotomic character identifies the quotient with : a uniformizer acts trivially on the totally ramified extension, while a 2-adic unit acts through its residue class modulo .
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Set and , with valuation rings . Let be the ramification index, the residue-field degree, and the residue characteristic. A base uniformizer generates in , up to a unit. The free -module has rank . For an integral , its field trace is the matrix trace of multiplication by on this module. Reduction modulo preserves the matrix trace.
The quotient has a filtrationEach of the successive quotients is a one-dimensional vector space over . On each, multiplication by acts as multiplication by its residue , whose trace over is . A basis adapted to the filtration makes the multiplication matrix block triangular, so its trace is the sum of these quotient traces. This proves trace reduction in a ramified local extension:Since the hypothesis says , the right side is zero in . ThusNo normality hypothesis is needed. The original PDF only requires divisibility of , not divisibility exactly once; the converted TeX has corrupted that condition and several local subscripts.
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Use , the valuation ring of the completion of a number field at a prime ideal, with uniformizer and residue field . This completeness is essential for coprime-factor Hensel lifting. Normalize the two residue factors to be monic first; if the original factors have reciprocal leading units, undo the normalization by multiplying the eventual factors by reciprocal lifts of those units.
Let the two monic residue degrees be . Start with monic lifts satisfying . Suppose monic lifts of these degrees satisfy . Put , of degree less than . Over , the linear mapis injective: a zero image makes divide , by coprimality, forcing by its degree bound, and then . The dimensions agree, so this map is a bijection. Choose lifts whose image is , and setTheir product agrees with modulo ; the new cross term has factor and . The degree bounds preserve monicity. Each coefficient is a Cauchy sequence in the complete discrete valuation ring , so the limits satisfyIf were interpreted only as an ordinary localization rather than the completed valuation ring, the assertion would be false. For example splits modulo seven but is irreducible over . The completion notation in the next part provides the intended local-field interpretation.
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The original PDF has cube roots throughout this question; the ninth roots in the converted TeX are transcription errors. Put and . The given condition excludes the trivial cube case. Both generators are integral, becauseMoreoverso is an order in the cubic field. The field traces of are zero, while . Thus the trace pairing matrix of this basis isWe must prove that this is the maximal order, not just compute the discriminant of a suborder. The discriminant-index formula for an integral lattice restricts any index prime to those dividing . If , the cubic for is Eisenstein at , while is a unit there and . If , use instead the Eisenstein polynomial for , and . In either case an Eisenstein generator is a uniformizer of the totally ramified local field and generates its full valuation ring. Indeed expansion in powers of that uniformizer using base residue representatives, and grouping powers modulo three, expresses every integral local element in its power basis.
These arguments also cover three when . If , every unit modulo nine has cube congruent to or . Therefore the condition implies : multiply a contrary congruence by the inverse of and use . Choose with . The polynomialis Eisenstein at three, since its constant term is divisible by three but not nine. Its root again generates the full local valuation ring. There is no index prime left. We have proved the integral basis of a cubefree pure cubic field and the requested discriminant:For write . Here and . The norm of is the determinant of its multiplication matrix, givingIn particularAn integral element of norm one has an integral inverse, by its monic characteristic polynomial. Here direct multiplication gives . Nontriviality also follows from linear independence of .
The signature is , so the Minkowski bound for ideal classes isEvery class therefore has an integral representative of norm at most eight. Its prime factors have norms at most eight, and lie above . Since the index of is one, reduction of gives their factorizations by the Kummer-Dedekind theorem. At two and three the polynomial is , so there is one prime of norm or , respectively. They are principal, becauseAt five the factorization is with the quadratic irreducible. The norm-five prime is because ; the norm-twenty-five prime is outside the bound.
At seven the roots are , giving three primes of norm seven. The elements and have norm seven and vanish at roots six and three, respectively; hence they generate and . Since , the remaining prime is principal too. Every prime which can divide a Minkowski representative is now principal, soThis proves class number one for Q of cube root six with all primes within the bound accounted for.
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For a finite point , use the valuation with local parameter ; at infinity use . Its extensions to are permuted transitively by . The completed residue field is , because is algebraically closed, so the local decomposition group equals its inertia group.
Write . Characteristic zero makes all local ramification tame. One can choose a uniformizer in the completion for whichIndeed, initially is times a unit; that unit has an th root in , by its algebraically closed residue field and the invertibility of . Absorb it into . The local automorphisms are then , , and form a cyclic group of order . Define .
To specify an element rather than a subgroup, fix a compatible choice of primitive roots of unity . Define by its uniformizer characterand let be its conjugacy class in . Over , take , corresponding to positive local continuation around . At an unramified point, and .
Changing the uniformizer does not affect this character. If with a unit, inertia fixes its residue, soThe character is injective: a nonidentity finite-order automorphism with derivative one would have for , and its th iterate would have coefficient at that first nonzero displacement. Characteristic zero contradicts finite order. Thus the chosen primitive character identifies a unique generator.
For another place , conjugation gives , preserves its order, and carries to , since fixes the constants and hence . This proves that and the branch-cycle conjugacy class are independent of the place and uniformizer. Without the stated roots-of-unity convention, only the cyclic inertia-subgroup conjugacy class is intrinsic: replacing by another primitive root replaces the generator by a coprime power, which need not lie in the same conjugacy class.
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Let be a primitive nth root of unity. The cyclotomic polynomial isInduction on shows that is monic with integer coefficients. Here is the essential irreducibility of cyclotomic polynomials argument. Let be the minimal polynomial of and let be a prime. If had a different monic irreducible polynomial , then . Reducing modulo gives , so and have a common factor. As , this would give a repeated factor of modulo , impossible because its derivative is . Thus is conjugate to . Every positive integer prime to is a product of such primes, so all primitive nth roots of unity are conjugate. ConsequentlyIn particular the cyclotomic field is an abelian extension. Complex conjugation corresponds to ; for its fixed field is , the maximal real subfield, of degree .
The ring of integers is . One way to see that there is no missing index is to work at each prime . Write with . The prime-to- roots of unity have separable reduction; their local factors generate unramified extensions with full integer rings. Over each such factor, adjoining is generated by the Eisenstein polynomial , with uniformizer , and hence gives the full integer ring of that totally ramified factor. The coprimality of and means that generates both sets of roots of unity. Thus is maximal at every , proving the integral assertion.
The same local description computes ramification and splitting. For , the ramification index is one, the residue degree is the multiplicative order of modulo , and there are primes above . If , put ; thenwhere . Indeed, the prime-to- part is unramified, and the -power part is totally ramified by the preceding Eisenstein polynomial. Notice the exception : its ramification index is one, consistently with for odd . Thus finite ramification occurs only at the indicated conductor primes, with that exception.
We now prove cyclotomic Artin reciprocity over the rational numbers, using arithmetic Frobenius automorphisms. If and lies over , then Frobenius sends the reduction of to its th power. Distinct nth roots of unity remain distinct modulo , since has separable reduction. Hence the Artin symbol is exactlyExtend multiplicatively to the group of rational fractional ideals prime to . Such an ideal has a unique positive rational generator whose numerator and denominator are prime to . The formula isEvery unit residue modulo has a positive integer representative prime to , so this Artin map is surjective. Its kernel is precisely the subgroup generated by positive . ThereforeThis proves the Artin reciprocity law for this extension, including its principal-ray kernel. The infinite component of the modulus records positivity and therefore the possible action of complex conjugation.
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Write for the valuation ring of , for a uniformizer, , and for the residue field. A useful strong form of Hensel lemma is the following: if and satisfythen there is a root with , unique among roots in that ball. If , its distance satisfies .
Here is a proof by successive correction. Put , , andStop if a root has already been reached. Otherwise the correction has valuation . Integral Taylor expansions show that andThus grows at least geometrically, the corrections tend to zero, and completeness gives a limit with . The first correction has strictly smaller valuation than every later nonzero correction, proving the asserted distance. If are in the ball , thenThe second factor cannot vanish. Two roots in the ball must therefore coincide. This proves Hensel lemma; in particular a simple root modulo has a unique lift with that residue.
We use this to establish existence and uniqueness of unramified local extensions. For each integer , choose a monic irreducible polynomial of degree and lift it to a monic . Reduction and Gauss lemma show that remains irreducible over . LetThe ring is finite free and complete over , and . An element outside is invertible: lift an inverse from the residue field and invert the remaining by a convergent geometric series. Every nonzero element of is times such a unit, since in a finite free module. Thus is a discrete valuation ring, its fraction field is , andThis constructs an unramified extension of each degree.
Conversely, let be an unramified extension of degree . Its residue field is the unique degree- finite field extension . Choose a residue root of in it. The root is simple, so Hensel lemma lifts it to a root of in . This embeds into , and equality of degrees makes it an isomorphism. All residue conjugates lift in itself; hence is Galois, and reduction identifies its Galois group with the cyclic Galois group of the residue field extension. Its distinguished Frobenius automorphism reduces to .
There is exactly one unramified extension of each degree inside a fixed algebraic closure, andFor the middle equality, every nonzero element of lifts uniquely to a st root of unity, because that exponent is prime to . A primitive such residue generates the finite field extension, so its lift generates . Taking the union gives the maximal unramified extension, with Galois group .
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Use the following simple-root Hensel lemma. Let be a complete discrete valuation ring, with maximal ideal , and let . If and , there is a unique with and .
For the proof, define Newton's method iterates . Each denominator stays a unit, because all iterates are congruent to . Taylor's polynomial identity givesIf an iterate is already a root, the process stops. Otherwise these valuations tend to infinity, so the iterates form a Cauchy sequence in the complete ring. Its limit has the required residue and satisfies . If were two such roots, thenThe parenthesis is a unit, forcing .
Now let be finite, with residue field . For every choose a monic irreducible polynomial of degree and lift it to a monic . The lift is irreducible over , since a factorization would reduce to a factorization of , by the monic form of Gauss's lemma over the valuation ring. If for a root, its residue field contains of degree . The inequality forces residue degree and ramification index one. Thus it is an unramified extension of degree .
Conversely, in any unramified extension of degree , choose a generator of its residue field and lift its separable minimal polynomial. Hensel's lemma supplies a root with that residue. Its degree is at least and hence it generates the extension. The same unique lifting of all residue conjugates shows that the extension is Galois andOne can see uniqueness inside a fixed algebraic closure explicitly: the roots of lift all nonzero residue elements, and a lifted primitive residue element generates the extension. Hencewith arithmetic Frobenius acting by . The case simply gives . These are all finite unramified extensions; exactly when . Their union is the maximal unramified extension, whose Galois group is .
Finally prove norm-surjectivity on units using the Herbrand quotient. For a cyclic group of order , writeThe quotient is multiplicative on short exact sequences, equals one for finite modules, equals on the trivial module , and equals one on induced regular modules. For a finite module, the equality follows directly from .
Let . For sufficiently large , the equivariant p-adic logarithm identifies with additively. In the unramified case this is an induced regular lattice. Indeed choose a normal basis of the finite residue extension and lift its generating element. Its Galois conjugates reduce to a basis and hence form an -basis of ; their coordinate determinant is a unit. Since a uniformizer of is also one of , multiplication by its th power gives the same regular-module structure on . For a regular module, invariants are norm images and a vector of coefficient sum zero is a cyclic difference, so both indicated Tate cohomology groups vanish. Consequently . The quotient is finite, so .
Apply multiplicativity toIt gives . Hilbert 90 makes trivial, so . On the other handso the quotient maps onto . As its order is already , its unit kernel is trivial. A norm which is a unit comes from a unit, by the same valuation formula. ThereforeThe standard normal-basis theorem for finite fields and the convergent logarithm/exponential on sufficiently deep principal units are the ingredients used in evaluating the Herbrand quotient; the norm conclusion itself has been deduced here.
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The idele group is the restricted productwith respect to at the finite places. Thus is an idele if all components are nonzero and is a unit at all but finitely many finite places. Its topology has basic open sets which equal the full unit subgroup outside finitely many places; it is not just the subspace topology of the unrestricted product. The group is locally compact, and the diagonal consists of the principal ideles. The idèle class group is .
The finite valuations give the idele-to-ideal homomorphismIts kernel is the product of the finite unit groups and the infinite multiplicative groups; principal ideles map to principal fractional ideals. Thus further quotienting gives the ideal class group. The product of normalized local moduli defines ; at complex places the normalized modulus is the square of the ordinary absolute value. The product formula says that principal ideles have modulus one. These constructions package ideals, units and archimedean conditions into one group.
Here is the precise reciprocity equivalence. For a finite abelian extension , the global law is a continuous Artin reciprocity mapwhich kills and sends a uniformizer idele at an unramified place to arithmetic Frobenius. Its full class-field-theoretic norm statement is . In the local formulation, the mapsare continuous, kill local units when unramified, send a local uniformizer to the same Frobenius, are compatible with restriction in towers, and obeyHere is the decomposition group of any prime above , independent of that choice because the extension is abelian. The usual local norm theorem identifies with . The principal-idele condition is the essential global compatibility; existence of unrelated local norm isomorphisms alone would not establish global reciprocity.
Given the compatible local maps, defineOnly finitely many factors are nontrivial: there are finitely many ramified places, and an idele is a unit almost everywhere. The product is a homomorphism. Continuity follows by choosing local kernel neighbourhoods at those exceptional places and the full unit groups elsewhere. The boxed compatibility kills , so the map descends to . At every unramified place it has the required Frobenius value. The local norm maps also show that idele norms are killed, since the local component of an idele norm is . Together with the class-field norm-index statement this gives the global norm-kernel formulation.
Conversely, embed in with every other component one, and set . Each restriction is continuous and has the required unramified normalization. An open kernel of the finite-valued global map contains a basic neighbourhood whose unrestricted finite-place factors are full unit groups outside a finite set. Hence those local restrictions kill units. For an arbitrary idele, remove the finitely many exceptional and nonunit components; the remainder lies in that kernel neighbourhood. It follows directly that is exactly the product of its local restrictions, not merely a map agreeing on single-component ideles. Its triviality on is exactly the boxed product relation. With the decomposition and norm assertions of the reciprocity theorem, these restrictions are the local reciprocity maps into with kernel .
One can explicitly connect this idelic formulation with the classical ideal law without assuming an idelic law in advance. A modulus of a number field records finitely many nonnegative exponents at finite places and a selected subset of real places. For a modulus , let have factors at finite places dividing the modulus, full units at other finite places, positive real numbers at specified real places, and full infinite multiplicative groups otherwise. Weak approximation for number fields supplies a global making lie in the specified local factors at the finitely many modulus places. Its valuations outside the modulus define an ideal prime to . A different such changes that ideal by a ray-principal ideal, and every ideal prime to is obtained. HenceAn ideal Artin map killing therefore extends to via this isomorphism; restricting it gives the local maps just constructed. Conversely, continuous local maps satisfying the product condition have an open product kernel containing some and hence make the ideal Artin map kill . This proves the idelic local-global reciprocity equivalence at the reciprocity-law level as well as the formal conversion of maps. The arithmetic Frobenius normalization and product relation agree with Milne's local-global reciprocity formulation.
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A central simple algebra over is a finite-dimensional associative unital -algebra with no nonzero proper two-sided ideals and center exactly . Its dimension is a square, . The Artin–Wedderburn theorem writes it as for a uniquely determined central division algebra up to isomorphism. One obtains this structure by taking a minimal left ideal and its commuting division endomorphism ring; the simple algebra acts as all endomorphisms over that ring. Over a suitable finite splitting field it becomes a full matrix algebra.
The Brauer group identifies two central simple algebras if their division-algebra parts agree, equivalently if tensoring each with suitable matrix algebras makes them isomorphic. The product is tensor product, the identity is the class of , and the inverse of is . Indeedis an isomorphism for a central simple algebra, so the product class is split. This also explains why matrix size is irrelevant to the Brauer class. The order of the class is its period, while the degree of its division-algebra representative is its index; these are different notions in general.
For the cyclic algebra construction, take a cyclic extension of degree , a generator and . SetThe multiplication is obtained by moving coefficients past and replacing every by . It is associative: reducing a product of three monomials gives the same total exponent, the same power of and the same iterated automorphisms in either order. The scalar is fixed by and , so reduction is consistent.
An element commuting with every has only its coefficient nonzero, because for . Commuting with then forces that coefficient into , proving that the center is . To prove simplicity, choose a nonzero element of a nonzero ideal with the fewest nonzero monomial coefficients. Since is invertible and each nonzero coefficient in is invertible, normalize one term to be the constant one. If another term remains, its automorphism differs from the identity; commuting with a suitable element of eliminates the constant term but not that other term. This gives a shorter nonzero element, a contradiction. The minimal element is therefore a unit, and the ideal is all of . Thus is central simple of dimension .
It splits over . For example, over represent by the diagonal matrix with entries , and let shift the standard basis down one place, sending the first vector to times the last. These matrices satisfy the defining relations. A primitive element of the separable extension has distinct conjugates; the Vandermonde matrix of their powers is invertible. Thus the diagonal images span all diagonal matrices after scalar extension to . Multiplying the diagonal matrix units by powers of the shift gives every matrix unit, proving .
The particularly useful splitting criterion isIf , let the algebra act on by multiplication for and by the semilinear operator for . Its th power is multiplication by , so this gives an isomorphism with , by simplicity and dimension. Conversely, a split algebra acts on an -dimensional -space . Restriction to the subfield makes one-dimensional over , and is a nonzero -semilinear operator. In an -basis it is , so forces . More generally the relative Brauer group split by a cyclic is , with multiplication of parameters corresponding to addition of classes.
For a finite field, a finite division algebra is commutative by Wedderburn's little theorem. Therefore every central simple algebra is a matrix algebra and . The cyclic-algebra viewpoint gives the same conclusion for cyclic classes because the norm between finite fields is surjective on their cyclic multiplicative groups.
For a nonarchimedean local field, the local Brauer invariant givesAn unramified cyclic extension of degree , with arithmetic Frobenius generator, gives invariant to its cyclic algebra. Question 2 shows that all units are norms; norm valuations are multiples of . Thus the relative classes are , represented by powers of a uniformizer. Allowing all realizes all invariants. At the infinite local fields, , while , with the nonzero class represented by Hamilton's quaternions and invariant .
For a number field, the Albert-Brauer-Hasse-Noether theorem supplies the exact sequenceHence a global algebra is determined by its finitely many nonzero local invariants, whose sum is zero; it is split precisely when all its local classes vanish. Every division algebra over a number field is cyclic, so cyclic algebras provide representatives for the global classes as well. Their norm parameters translate splitting into local norm conditions and the reciprocity constraint on the sum of invariants. The local invariant theorem, Wedderburn's little theorem and the global invariant theorem are the standard structural results used here; their role in the requested computation is explicit.
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The shifted cyclotomic polynomial is Eisenstein at : its constant coefficient is , and modulo it is . Thus , is a uniformizer, and for . The automorphisms over send to for .
Since has positive valuation, evaluating an integral formal power series there converges. A unit series has unit constant coefficient and evaluates to a unit. Evaluate the Coleman norm operator identity at :The final equality uses norm fixation and the compatible choice of roots. HenceIn particular, norm fixation of a single Coleman power series produces a norm-compatible sequence of local units.
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At a point of the smooth algebraic curve , the local ring is a discrete valuation ring. Embed the projective variety in . A rational map of algebraic varieties to has homogeneous coordinates in the function field , not all zero. Let be the local valuation, choose a uniformizer , and set . The coordinates are regular at , and at least one is a unit. On a sufficiently small open subset containing , all these functions are regular and that coordinate stays nonzero. Their ratios therefore define a morphism of algebraic varieties into the corresponding affine chart of . Every homogeneous equation defining vanishes on the original dense open, hence vanishes identically on this neighborhood. The local extension consequently lands in .
Two such extensions agree wherever the original rational map of algebraic varieties is defined. Their equalizer is closed, because is a separated variety, and contains a dense open. Thus they agree throughout their overlap and glue. The rational map has a unique extension to a morphism on all of . Projectivity is needed for the target; the source need not be projective.
For the function field correspondence, let be a finitely generated field extension of transcendence degree one. Choose a transcendence basis consisting of one element . The extension is finite: finitely many algebraic generators each have finite degree. Take the integral closures of and in . The finiteness assumption allowed in the paper makes both finite modules over their original coordinate rings. Integral closure commutes with localization, so these two rings agree over and glue to the finite normalization model of a one-variable function field . This is a finite morphism, hence projective, and its function field is . Its one-dimensional normal local rings are discrete valuation rings, so it is regular. Since the algebraically closed field is perfect, regularity here implies smoothness. Thus is a smooth projective curve.
Conversely the function field of a smooth projective curve is finitely generated over and has transcendence degree one. Two such curves with isomorphic function fields have mutually inverse birational maps. The extension argument just proved makes both maps morphisms; their composites equal the identity on a dense open, and hence everywhere by separatedness. This proves uniqueness of the smooth projective model. More precisely, pullback gives a contravariant correspondence between nonconstant morphisms of smooth projective curves and -embeddings of their function fields. A field embedding defines the map on affine coordinates near the generic point, and the extension argument completes it. Constant morphisms are excluded from this correspondence because they do not induce embeddings of function fields.
Finally let be nonconstant. Its image is dense, and pullback gives a finite extension : both fields have transcendence degree one and the latter is finitely generated. Normalize in , applying the allowed finite-integral closure result on affine charts. This gives a finite morphism with a smooth projective curve and function field . The identification of function fields gives an isomorphism by the preceding paragraph. Its composite with equals at the generic point, hence equals everywhere. Every nonconstant morphism of these curves is finite.
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For a finite extension of fields complete for a Non-Archimedean absolute value, use the unique extended field absolute value. The extension is unramified when its residue extension is a separable field extension andEquivalently, it has ramification index one, a separable field extension of residue fields, and no defect. For general nondiscrete valued fields, merely saying that the ramification index is one is insufficient; the displayed degree equality is part of the unramified condition.
Put . Since generates the residue extension, are linearly independent over . Their lifts are linearly independent over : a nonzero relation could be divided by a coefficient of largest field absolute value, giving an integral relation whose reduction has at least one nonzero coefficient, contrary to residue independence. They therefore form a -basis of .
For any , choose of largest field absolute value. All coefficients of belong to , and at least one is a unit. Its reduction is a nonzero linear combination of the residue basis, so is a unit of . This proves the residue-basis norm formula for an unramified extensionHence exactly when every . We concludeThe last equality also uses the fact that every polynomial in the integral element is integral. The proof requires neither a uniformizer nor discrete valuation, and applies to every residue generator specified in the question.