Artin reciprocity

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The Artin reciprocity law, which was established by Emil Artin in a series of papers (1924; 1927; 1930), is a general theorem in number theory that forms a central part of global class field theory.[1] The term "reciprocity law" refers to a long line of more concrete number theoretic statements which it generalized, from the quadratic reciprocity law and the reciprocity laws of Eisenstein and Kummer to Hilbert's product formula for the norm symbol. Artin's result provided a partial solution to Hilbert's ninth problem.

Statement

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Let   be a Galois extension of global fields and   stand for the idèle class group of  . One of the statements of the Artin reciprocity law is that there is a canonical isomorphism called the global symbol map[2][3]

 

where   denotes the abelianization of a group, and   is the Galois group of   over  . The map   is defined by assembling the maps called the local Artin symbol, the local reciprocity map or the norm residue symbol[4][5]

 

for different places   of  . More precisely,   is given by the local maps   on the  -component of an idèle class. The maps   are isomorphisms. This is the content of the local reciprocity law, a main theorem of local class field theory.

Proof

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A cohomological proof of the global reciprocity law can be achieved by first establishing that

 

constitutes a class formation in the sense of Artin and Tate.[6] Then one proves that

 

where   denote the Tate cohomology groups. Working out the cohomology groups establishes that   is an isomorphism.

Significance

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Artin's reciprocity law implies a description of the abelianization of the absolute Galois group of a global field K which is based on the Hasse local–global principle and the use of the Frobenius elements. Together with the Takagi existence theorem, it is used to describe the abelian extensions of K in terms of the arithmetic of K and to understand the behavior of the nonarchimedean places in them. Therefore, the Artin reciprocity law can be interpreted as one of the main theorems of global class field theory. It can be used to prove that Artin L-functions are meromorphic, and also to prove the Chebotarev density theorem.[7]

Two years after the publication of his general reciprocity law in 1927, Artin rediscovered the transfer homomorphism of I. Schur and used the reciprocity law to translate the principalization problem for ideal classes of algebraic number fields into the group theoretic task of determining the kernels of transfers of finite non-abelian groups.[8]

Finite extensions of global fields

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(See https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4131855/frobenius-elements#:~:text=A%20Frobenius%20element%20for%20P,some%20%CF%84%E2%88%88KP for an explanation of some of the terms used here)

The definition of the Artin map for a finite abelian extension L/K of global fields (such as a finite abelian extension of  ) has a concrete description in terms of prime ideals and Frobenius elements.

If   is a prime of K then the decomposition groups of primes   above   are equal in Gal(L/K) since the latter group is abelian. If   is unramified in L, then the decomposition group   is canonically isomorphic to the Galois group of the extension of residue fields   over  . There is therefore a canonically defined Frobenius element in Gal(L/K) denoted by   or  . If Δ denotes the relative discriminant of L/K, the Artin symbol (or Artin map, or (global) reciprocity map) of L/K is defined on the group of prime-to-Δ fractional ideals,  , by linearity:

 

The Artin reciprocity law (or global reciprocity law) states that there is a modulus c of K such that the Artin map induces an isomorphism

 

where Kc,1 is the ray modulo c, NL/K is the norm map associated to L/K and   is the fractional ideals of L prime to c. Such a modulus c is called a defining modulus for L/K. The smallest defining modulus is called the conductor of L/K and typically denoted  

Examples

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Quadratic fields

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If   is a squarefree integer,   and  , then   can be identified with {±1}. The discriminant Δ of L over   is d or 4d depending on whether d ≡ 1 (mod 4) or not. The Artin map is then defined on primes p that do not divide Δ by

 

where   is the Kronecker symbol.[9] More specifically, the conductor of   is the principal ideal (Δ) or (Δ)∞ according to whether Δ is positive or negative,[10] and the Artin map on a prime-to-Δ ideal (n) is given by the Kronecker symbol   This shows that a prime p is split or inert in L according to whether   is 1 or −1.

Cyclotomic fields

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Let m > 1 be either an odd integer or a multiple of 4, let   be a primitive mth root of unity, and let   be the mth cyclotomic field.   can be identified with   by sending σ to aσ given by the rule

 

The conductor of   is (m)∞,[11] and the Artin map on a prime-to-m ideal (n) is simply n (mod m) in  [12]

Relation to quadratic reciprocity

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Let p and   be distinct odd primes. For convenience, let   (which is always 1 (mod 4)). Then, quadratic reciprocity states that

 

The relation between the quadratic and Artin reciprocity laws is given by studying the quadratic field   and the cyclotomic field   as follows.[9] First, F is a subfield of L, so if H = Gal(L/F) and   then   Since the latter has order 2, the subgroup H must be the group of squares in   A basic property of the Artin symbol says that for every prime-to-ℓ ideal (n)

 

When n = p, this shows that   if and only if, p modulo ℓ is in H, i.e. if and only if, p is a square modulo ℓ.

Statement in terms of L-functions

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An alternative version of the reciprocity law, leading to the Langlands program, connects Artin L-functions associated to abelian extensions of a number field with Hecke L-functions associated to characters of the idèle class group.[13]

A Hecke character (or Größencharakter) of a number field K is defined to be a quasicharacter of the idèle class group of K. Robert Langlands interpreted Hecke characters as automorphic forms on the reductive algebraic group GL(1) over the ring of adeles of K.[14]

Let   be an abelian Galois extension with Galois group G. Then for any character   (i.e. one-dimensional complex representation of the group G), there exists a Hecke character   of K such that

 

where the left hand side is the Artin L-function associated to the extension with character σ and the right hand side is the Hecke L-function associated with χ, Section 7.D of.[14]

The formulation of the Artin reciprocity law as an equality of L-functions allows formulation of a generalisation to n-dimensional representations, though a direct correspondence is still lacking.

Notes

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  1. ^ Helmut Hasse, History of Class Field Theory, in Algebraic Number Theory, edited by Cassels and Frölich, Academic Press, 1967, pp. 266–279
  2. ^ Neukirch (1999) p.391
  3. ^ Jürgen Neukirch, Algebraische Zahlentheorie, Springer, 1992, p. 408. In fact, a more precise version of the reciprocity law keeps track of the ramification.
  4. ^ Serre (1967) p.140
  5. ^ Serre (1979) p.197
  6. ^ Serre (1979) p.164
  7. ^ Jürgen Neukirch, Algebraische Zahlentheorie, Springer, 1992, Chapter VII
  8. ^ Artin, Emil (December 1929), "Idealklassen in oberkörpern und allgemeines reziprozitätsgesetz", Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg, 7 (1): 46–51, doi:10.1007/BF02941159.
  9. ^ a b Lemmermeyer 2000, §3.2
  10. ^ Milne 2008, example 3.11
  11. ^ Milne 2008, example 3.10
  12. ^ Milne 2008, example 3.2
  13. ^ James Milne, Class Field Theory
  14. ^ a b Gelbart, Stephen S. (1975), Automorphic forms on adèle groups, Annals of Mathematics Studies, vol. 83, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, MR 0379375.

References

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