Fundamental units for orders of unit rank 1 and generated by a unit

Stéphane R. Louboutin

Banach Center Publications (2016)

  • Volume: 108, Issue: 1, page 173-189
  • ISSN: 0137-6934

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Let ε be an algebraic unit for which the rank of the group of units of the order ℤ[ε] is equal to 1. Assume that ε is not a complex root of unity. It is natural to wonder whether ε is a fundamental unit of this order. It turns out that the answer is in general yes, and that a fundamental unit of this order can be explicitly given (as an explicit polynomial in ε) in the rare cases when the answer is no. This paper is a self-contained exposition of the solution to this problem, solution which was up to now scattered in many papers in the literature.

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Stéphane R. Louboutin. "Fundamental units for orders of unit rank 1 and generated by a unit." Banach Center Publications 108.1 (2016): 173-189. <http://eudml.org/doc/286247>.

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