The calculation of large units in cyclic cubic fields.
Let be a Krull monoid with finite class group such that every class contains a prime divisor (for example, a ring of integers in an algebraic number field or a holomorphy ring in an algebraic function field). The catenary degree of is the smallest integer with the following property: for each and each two factorizations of , there exist factorizations of such that, for each , arises from by replacing at most atoms from by at most new atoms. Under a very mild condition...
1. Introduction. Let k be a totally real number field. Let p be a fixed prime number and ℤₚ the ring of all p-adic integers. We denote by λ=λₚ(k), μ=μₚ(k) and ν=νₚ(k) the Iwasawa invariants of the cyclotomic ℤₚ-extension of k for p (cf. [10]). Then Greenberg’s conjecture states that both λₚ(k) and μₚ(k) always vanish (cf. [8]). In other words, the order of the p-primary part of the ideal class group of kₙ remains bounded as n tends to infinity, where kₙ is the nth layer of . We know by the Ferrero-Washington...
Let H be a Krull monoid with class group G. Then every nonunit a ∈ H can be written as a finite product of atoms, say . The set (a) of all possible factorization lengths k is called the set of lengths of a. If G is finite, then there is a constant M ∈ ℕ such that all sets of lengths are almost arithmetical multiprogressions with bound M and with difference d ∈ Δ*(H), where Δ*(H) denotes the set of minimal distances of H. We show that max Δ*(H) ≤ maxexp(G)-2,(G)-1 and that equality holds if every...
Let and be two different prime integers such that with , and a positive odd square-free integer relatively prime to and . In this paper we investigate the unit groups of number fields .