The Artin Reciprocity Law is a general theorem of number theory forming a central part of global class field theory, generalizing a long line of more concrete reciprocity statements including the law of quadratic reciprocity and the reciprocity laws of Eisenstein and Kummer. Established by Emil Artin across a series of papers in the 1920s, it provided a partial solution to Hilbert's ninth problem and remains one of the foundational results connecting abelian extensions of number fields to the arithmetic of the base field.
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StatementFor an abelian Galois extension of global fields, the law gives a canonical isomorphism between the Galois group of the extension and a quotient of the idele class group of the base field, generalizing the classical quadratic reciprocity law and the reciprocity laws of Eisenstein and Kummer. 1 Proof YearArtin established the law across papers from 1924 to 1930; the raw wikitext's own References list dates the general reciprocity law paper itself to 1927, the year recorded here. Classification
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1. Artin Reciprocity Law (Wikipedia)
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The Artin reciprocity law, which was established by Emil Artin in a series of papers (1924; 1927; 1930), is a general theorem in number theory that forms a central part of global class field theory.
References list, Artin's 1927 paper
Emil Artin (1927) "Beweis des allgemeinen Reziprozitätsgesetzes", Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg 5: 353-363
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