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Local-global principle for Witt equivalence of function fields over global fields

Przemyslaw Koprowski (2002)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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We examine the conditions for two algebraic function fields over global fields to be Witt equivalent. We develop a criterion solving the problem which is analogous to the local-global principle for Witt equivalence of global fields obtained by R. Perlis, K. Szymiczek, P. E. Conner and R. Litherland [12]. Subsequently, we derive some immediate consequences of this result. In particular we show that Witt equivalence of algebraic function fields (that have rational places) over global fields...

Class numbers of totally real fields and applications to the Weber class number problem

John C. Miller (2014)

Acta Arithmetica

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The determination of the class number of totally real fields of large discriminant is known to be a difficult problem. The Minkowski bound is too large to be useful, and the root discriminant of the field can be too large to be treated by Odlyzko's discriminant bounds. We describe a new technique for determining the class number of such fields, allowing us to attack the class number problem for a large class of number fields not treatable by previously known methods. We give an application...

Height Functions for Groups of S-units of Number Fields and Reductions Modulo Prime Ideals

Stefan Barańczuk (2015)

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mathematics

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A result on the orders of the reductions of an element of the group of S-units of a number field is obtained by investigating three height functions for groups of S-units of number fields which are analogous to local, global and canonical height functions for elliptic curves.