Periodic expansions and units in quadratic and cubic number fields.
A number field , with ring of integers , is said to be a Pólya field if the -algebra formed by the integer-valued polynomials on admits a regular basis. In a first part, we focus on fields with degree less than six which are Pólya fields. It is known that a field is a Pólya field if certain characteristic ideals are principal. Analogously to the classical embedding problem, we consider the embedding of in a Pólya field. We give a positive answer to this embedding problem by showing that...
For an algebraic number field with -class group of type , the structure of the -class groups of the four unramified cyclic cubic extension fields , , of is calculated with the aid of presentations for the metabelian Galois group of the second Hilbert -class field of . In the case of a quadratic base field it is shown that the structure of the -class groups of the four -fields frequently determines the type of principalization of the -class group of in . This provides...