Determination of all non-normal quartic CM-fields and of all non-abelian normal octic CM-fields with class number one
Determination of all non-normal quartic CM-fields and of all non-abelian normal octic CM-fields with class number one
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确定所有非正态四次 CM 场和所有第一类非阿贝尔正态八次 CM 场
DOI:
10.4064/aa-67-1-47-62
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发表时间:
1994
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影响因子:
0.7
通讯作者:
R. Okazaki
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作者:
S. Louboutin;R. Okazaki
0. Introduction and notations. It has long been known that there are only finitely many non-isomorphic abelian CM-fields with class number one. Lately, K. Yamamura (see [Y]) has determined all abelian CM-fields with class number one. There are exactly 172 non-isomorphic such number fields. It is also known (see [O, Th. 2]) that there are only finitely many non-isomorphic normal CM-fields with class number one and J. Hoffstein proved that the degrees of such fields are less than 436 (see [H, Corollary 2]). Hence, it is time to move on to the determination of non-abelian or even non-normal CM-fields with class number one and of fixed degrees. We look at the smallest possible degrees. We point out that there does not exist any non-abelian but normal CM-field with degree 6. Hence, we will look at the non-normal quartic case and at the octic non-abelian normal case, i.e. at the quaternion or dihedral cases. Indeed, let N be a CM-field that is normal over Q. As in [W, p. 38], one can easily see that the complex conjugation is an element of order two in the Galois group of the extension N/Q that commutes with all the other elements of this Galois group. This constraint on the Galois group of a normal CM-field enables us to point out that for example there does not exist any non-abelian but normal CM-field with degree 2p where p is an odd prime. Thus, the lowest possible degree for a non-abelian normal CM-field is 8. Here we know that the Galois group of any non-abelian normal octic number field is either a quaternion group or a dihedral group. In this paper, we prove that there does not exist any quaternion octic CM-field with class number one because the class number of such a number field is always even. Let us note that in [Lou 4] the first author determined all quaternion octic CM-fields with class number two. We then prove that there