We determine the Hilbert 2-class field tower for some quartic number fields whose 2-class group is isomorphic to .
1. Introduction
Let be a number field, its -class group, it is the -Sylow subgroup of the class group (in the wide sense) of , the tower of Hilbert -class field of which means that is the Hilbert -class field of (this is the maximal abelian unramified extension of of degree a power of ) and is the Hilbert -class field of for .
If is a -group of order , , such that , then is isomorphic to the quaternion (respectively dihedral, semidihedral, Klein) group of order . In particular , the commutator subgroup of , is cyclic.
Proof. See [3]. □
Let , be the Galois group of , then, with class field theory we have that and . According to [3] and [8], if is an elementary group of rank , then is cyclic, which implies that the Hilbert -class field tower stops at .
(Taussky’s Conditions). Let be a cyclic unramified extension and denote the conorm (respectively the norm) of .
is of type if and only if ,
is of type if and only if .
Note that is the set of all the class ideals of which capitulate in .
Let be a number field such that is isomorphic to the three unramified quadratic extensions of within and be the Galois group of , then
is abelian if and only if the four classes of capitulate in each extension ;
if and only if the three extensions are of type and in each extension only two classes of capitulate;
avec if and only if uniquely one extension is of type and in each extension two classes of capitulate;
if and only if the three extensions are of type and in each extension two classes of capitulate;
if and only if the four classes of capitulate uniquely in one extension .
Proof. See [8]. □
2. Units of some number fieldss
In the remainder of this paper, let be a prime number congruent to modulo 8, the fundamental unit of and .
The extension is real cyclic of degree , of Galois group and quadratic subfield . Since is of conductor , then is a subfield of the th cyclotomic field and there is a character of , where its kernel is , we will call the character of .
Let , then is a rational character of and is fixed by the Common kernel of and . Let be the group of units of , the group of -relatives units of (according to definition of H. W. Leopoldt in [10]), (respectively ) the group of the absolute values of , (respectively of ), and a generator of , then:
Let where be a prime number congruent to modulo and the fundamental unit of , then there exists in , such as and is a fundamental system of units of
Proof. See [4]. □
Since , then:
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With the same notation of Theorem 2 , is also a fundamental system of units of where is a positive integer prime to and squarefree.
Proof. If , then, according to [1, Proposition 3], to show that is a fundamental system of units of it suffices to show that is not a square in , for where and .
Indeed, if , then if in , by calculating the norm in , we find that is a square in , which is impossible.
If , then if in , by calculating the norm in , we find that is a square in , which is absurd.
If , then if in , by calculating the norm in , we find that is a square in , which is not the case.
If , then if in , by calculating the norm in , we find that is a square in , which is absurd.
If , then cannot be a square in .
If , then if in , by calculating the norm in , we find that is a square in , which is not the case.
If , then if in , by calculating the norm in , we find that is a square in , which is impossible.
If , then we have is the largest integer such that , so, from [1, Proposition 2], to show that is a fundamental system of units of it suffices to show that is not a square in , for where and . Using the same reasoning as above we find the result, which completes the proof of the lemma.□
3. Hilbert 2-class field tower of
Let where is a prime number such that and , according to [2], is isomorphic to , thus has three intermediate subfields, and let be the Galois group of . Using [6, Theorem 4, p. 48–49], it is easy to show that the genus field of is , this is the maximal extension of of the form which is unramified for all prime ideals of , finite and infinite, and such that is abelian over .
As , then there exist two prime ideals
with and are integers, but and are principal ideals of where is the class number of , so we can choose and positive integers such as
with and are positive. Let and be prime ideals of above and respectively and .
Let where is a prime number such that and . Then the class is of order in . Moreover capitulates in .
Proof. The class of is of order , indeed, we have in . Suppose that for some in , which is equivalent to in , therefore, there exists a unit of such that , although there exist and in such that , thus
Since is a fundamental unit of and , then , therefore or is equal to . If , then , so or in , which gives that in the first case and in the second case, which is impossible. Similarly, if we find that is a square in , consequently is of order .
To show that is capitulated in , it suffices to remark that is in and in , thus capitulates in □.
Let where is a prime number such that and and . Then , the -part of the class group of , is cyclic of order .
Proof. Let , , , , , and defined as above and let , then we have , and is unramified in . So, to prove that is inert in it suffices to show that is inert in (Translation Theorem), and for this, we calculate the following norm residue symbol . According to [2], we have
so is inert in , which gives remains inert in and in the same way we have shown that remains inert in and since capitulates in , then by the Artin reciprocity law, we find that is of type , therefore, according to [8], we find that is cyclic.
Since is a normal biquadratic extension with Galois group of type and where are these intermediate subfields, then, by [9], we have
But (see [12]), and by [7,11] we have , so and we have is a fundamental unit of and since is not a square in , then, by [1, Proposition 3], is also a fundamental system of units of and according to Lemma 2, and have the same fundamental system of units which is , thus , the unit index of , is equal to , which gives that . □
Let where is a prime number such that and and let be the Galois group of , then is of order .
Indeed, we have is an unramified extension and the -class group of is cyclic, thus and have the same Hilbert -class field, namely , so # .
Let where is a prime number such that and , the quadratic subfields of . Then, in each extension , , there exist exactly two classes of which capitulates and is the quaternion group of order .
Proof. According to Lemma 2, we have is a fundamental system of units of . Since
then , consequently, by [5], we have only two classes of which capitulates in , namely and its square and since the extension is of type , then, by Theorem 1, we find that is a quaternion group, and by Remark 2, the group is of order , therefore . □
As , then, by [8],
Let , we have and , then the Galois group of is the quaternion group of order , there exist exactly two classes of which capitulates in , as well for and for and the Hilbert -class field tower of stops at .
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