Algebraic number theory is the branch of number theory that uses the techniques of abstract algebra to study the integers, the rational numbers and their generalizations to algebraic number fields. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionWhether the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, that every integer factors uniquely into primes, continues to hold in the ring of integers of a general algebraic number field, a property that can fail once the integers are generalized this way. 1 Key DebateHow far Gauss's introduction of the Gaussian integers as a ring with its own arithmetic, laid out in the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, could be extended to general number fields once unique factorization was found to fail there, a gap that motivated the ideal-theoretic machinery the field later built to repair it. 1 Classification
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1. Algebraic Number Theory (Wikipedia)
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Algebraic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses the techniques of abstract algebra to study the integers, rational numbers, and their generalizations.
Failure of unique factorization
An important property of the ring of rational integers Z is that it satisfies the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, that every (positive) integer has a factorization into a product of prime numbers, and this factorization is unique up to the ordering of the factors. This may no longer be true in the ring of integers O of an algebraic number field K.
Gauss
One of the founding works of algebraic number theory, the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Latin: Arithmetical Investigations) is a textbook of number theory written in Latin by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1798 when Gauss was 21 and first published in 1801 when he was 24.
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The proof's method of identification of a deformation ring with a Hecke algebra (now referred to as an R=T theorem) to prove modularity lifting theorems has been an influential development in algebraic number theory.
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Artin-Verdier duality (Wikipedia)
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Artin-Verdier duality is a duality theorem for constructible abelian sheaves over the spectrum of a ring of algebraic numbers
View the Source MacTutor History of Mathematics: Teiji Takagi
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Takagi proved a conjecture on abelian extensions of imaginary number fields made by Kronecker
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In algebraic number theory, a reflection theorem or Spiegelungssatz (German for reflection theorem - see Spiegel and Satz) is one of a collection of theorems linking the sizes of different ideal class groups (or ray class groups), or the sizes of different isotypic components of a class group.
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In algebraic number theory, a Gauss sum or Gaussian sum is a particular kind of finite sum of roots of unity, typically G ( χ ) :=
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In algebraic number theory, Leopoldt's conjecture, introduced by Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt, states that the p-adic regulator of a
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Grunwald-Wang theorem (Wikipedia)
Landau prime ideal theorem (Wikipedia)
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In algebraic number theory, the prime ideal theorem is the number field generalization of the prime number theorem.
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ideal theorem of class field theory, a branch of algebraic number theory, says that extending ideals gives a mapping on the class
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algebraic number theory
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algebraic number theory
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published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory
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working in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry
View the Source Wikipedia: Wilhelm Grunwald
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who introduced the Grunwald-Wang theorem
View the Source Brauer-Siegel theorem (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the Brauer-Siegel theorem, named after Richard Brauer and Carl Ludwig Siegel, is an asymptotic result on the behaviour of algebraic number fields, obtained by Richard Brauer and Carl Ludwig Siegel.
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Sequences satisfying Gauss congruence naturally occur in the study of topological dynamics, algebraic number theory and combinatorics.
View the Source Hilbert-Speiser theorem (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the Hilbert-Speiser theorem is a result on cyclotomic fields, characterising those with a normal integral
View the Source Takagi existence theorem (Wikipedia)
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In class field theory, the Takagi existence theorem states that for
View the Source Discriminant of an Algebraic Number Field (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the discriminant of an algebraic number field is a numerical invariant that, loosely speaking
View the Source Herbrand-Ribet theorem (Wikipedia)
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mathematics, the Herbrand-Ribet theorem is a result on the class group of certain number fields. It is a strengthening of Ernst Kummer's theorem
View the Source MacTutor biography of Jean-Pierre Serre, St Andrews
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Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made important contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory.
View the Source MacTutor biography of Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt, St Andrews
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Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt was a German mathematician who worked in algebraic number theory.
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