Corresponding Abelian Extensions of Integrally Equivalent Number Fields
Abstract
Extensive work has been done to determine necessary and sufficient conditions for a bijective correspondence of abelian extensions of number fields to force an isomorphism of the base fields. However, explicit examples of correspondences over non-isomorphic fields are rare. Integrally equivalent number fields admit an induced correspondence of abelian extensions. Studying this correspondence using idelic class field theory and linear algebra, we show that the corresponding extensions share features similar to those of arithmetically equivalent fields, and yet they are not generally weakly Kronecker equivalent. We also extend a group cohomological result of Arapura et. al. and present geometric and arithmetic applications.
1. Introduction and Background
1.1. Summary
D. Prasad noted an isomorphism of the idele class groups of some non-isomorphic number fields [Pra17], which induces a correspondence of their abelian extensions. This article is principally concerned with determining the arithmetic similarity of extensions corresponding under this bijection. In doing so, one is led to the notions of arithmetic, Kronecker, and weak Kronecker equivalence as means of comparing the splitting behavior of rational primes. In Section 2, we record the fact that a generic correspondence of abelian extensions of number fields cannot generally preserve arithmetic equivalence classes. Then, in Section 4, we prove that our corresponding extensions are not even weakly Kronecker equivalent in general, yet they share features similar to those of arithmetically equivalent fields. Some necessary technical facts on group schemes are recorded in Section 3. In Section 5, we conclude by extending a group cohomological result of Arapura et. al. This is motivated by a geometric application to manifolds with contractible universal cover, but the techniques shed further light on the arithmetic correspondence. We describe below some of the essential ingredients in this article, reviewing relevant facts and establishing context.
1.2. Corresponding Abelian Extensions
A triple of groups is called an integral Gassmann triple if there is an isomorphism of -modules, where the -action is permutation of cosets induced by left multiplication. Let be a Galois extension of number fields with group . For a subfield of , let be the subgroup of fixing . Subfields and of are called integrally equivalent if is an integral Gassmann triple. Integral equivalence of number fields and induces an isomorphism of idele class groups, and this gives a correspondence of their abelian extensions, by class field theory (c.f. Section 4). Letting be the discriminant of a number field , and its -group (c.f. Section 1.4), corresponding abelian extensions of integrally equivalent number fields enjoy the following relations.
Theorem 1.1.
If , are corresponding abelian extensions of integrally equivalent number fields, then, for ,
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have the same degree, Galois closure, and maximal abelian subextension over
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and have the same signature for odd
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for odd when is odd
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and have the same prime divisors
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Readers acquainted with the topic of arithmetic similarity (c.f. Section 1.3, and [Per77, Kli78, Jeh77, Loc95, Loc94b, Loc94a, Kli98]) might have already noted the similarity of Theorem 1.1 to the following.
Theorem 1.2.
[Per77] If are arithmetically equivalent number fields, then
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have the same degree, Galois closure, and maximal Galois subextension over
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and have the same signature
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for odd
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.
This resemblance between arithmetically equivalent number fields and corresponding abelian extensions of integrally equivalent number fields is especially striking, since we show in Theorem 4.16 that the corresponding extensions are not even weakly Kronecker equivalent in general. On the other hand, integral equivalence appears to be a significantly stronger condition than arithmetic equivalence, and, since it induces a correspondence of abelian extensions, one might guess that certain qualities of arithmetic similarity are inherited.
A triple of groups is called a Gassmann triple if there is an isomorphism of -modules . Number fields and are arithmetically equivalent if and only if is a Gassmann triple, where is the group of the Galois closure of the , , over the rational numbers. From the perspective of group (co)homology, the constituents of an integral Gassmann triple enjoy equality of (co)homology groups with trivial action on torsion coefficients, but this is not always so for an ordinary Gassmann triple (c.f. Corollary 5.2 in this article, and [BP16]). Furthermore, there are several constructions which produce Gassmann triples (c.f. [Per77, Sun85]), but all known examples of integral Gassmann triples fundamentally arise from a nuclear triple, originally due to L. Scott [Sco93], and whose existence appears to the author a miracle. Scott noticed that has non-conjugate subgroups and , both isomorphic to , such that is an integral Gassmann triple. It was D. Zywina who then showed that is the Galois group of an extension of number fields [Zyw15], and D. Prasad who first noted that this implies the isomorphism of idele class groups of what we are calling integrally equivalent number fields [Pra17]. We recall some history motivating our study of the induced correspondence of abelian extensions.
For number fields with absolute Galois groups respectively, the celebrated Neukirch-Uchida Theorem [Uch76] says that if and only if , but it is known that an isomorphism of abelianized Galois groups does not imply an isomorphism . Indeed, for non-isomorphic integrally equivalent , since , where is the idele class group, and the hat indicates profinite completion. Now, Cornelissen et. al. have devoted considerable effort to reconstructing global fields from their abelianized Galois groups and related data (c.f. [Cor13, CLMS17, CM14]), culminating in [CdSL+18], whose main theorem says the existence of an isomorphism inducing an -function preserving correspondence of Dirichlet characters is equivalent to an isomorphism , for global fields and . Furthermore, they prove the following theorem in the number field case.
Theorem 1.3.
[CdSL+18] Given a number field and an integer , there is a character of of order such that if is a number field admitting a character with , then .
As a corollary, one can deduce that a number field is uniquely determined up to isomorphism by the set of Dedekind zeta functions of its finite abelian extensions, as observed by Solomatin in [Sol19]. We recall the argument below for the convenience of the reader (c.f. Section 2). This result suggests asking how arithmetically similar corresponding abelian extensions can be when the base fields are non-isomorphic. Despite the cited work of Cornelissen et. al., examples of correspondences of abelian extensions do not abound in the literature, so this converse question has not received much attention. We explore it here and provide an answer with Theorems 1.1 and 4.16.
Some final remarks on notation and terminology. Throughout the sequel, the symbol is used to indicate a direct product, except in the proofs of Theorem 3.3 and Corollary 4.4. Furthermore, an integral Gassmann triple is assumed to have , and number fields will be called integrally equivalent over if is an integral Gassmann triple, where is the group of the Galois closure of , . Lastly, , and .
1.3. Comparing Splitting Types
Let be the decomposition of the rational prime into prime ideals in the ring of integers of a number field . Define the splitting type as the multiset of residues of over , that is , with . Arithmetic equivalence of number fields can be characterized as an equality for all but finitely many rational primes . Call Kronecker equivalent if for all but finitely many , and weakly Kronecker equivalent if for all but finitely many . We record a useful theorem for reference later.
Theorem 1.4 ([Loc94a] Theorem ).
If and are weakly Kronecker equivalent number fields, then for any prime , if and only if .
In fact, and are Kronecker equivalent if and only if for all , where [Loc95]. In particular, Kronecker equivalence implies weak Kronecker equivalence, and, clearly, arithmetic equivalence implies Kronecker equivalence. Furthermore, for Kronecker equivalent , if , then if and only if , so that Kronecker equivalence is a sort of approximate arithmetic equivalence. Weak Kronecker equivalence does not support a similar interpretation in a nice way, but a related notion does. We call number fields and such that for all but finitely many ultra-coarsely arithmetically equivalent. This terminology is motivated by Proposition 1.6. As it turns out, number fields are ultra-coarsely arithmetically equivalent if and only if they have the same Galois closure.
Proposition 1.5.
Number fields are ultra-coarsely arithmetically equivalent if and only if they have the same Galois closure over .
Proof.
If are ultra-coarsely arithmetically equivalent number fields, a rational prime splits completely in if and only if it does so in , with at most finitely many exceptions, so the Galois closure of is equal to that of . Now, suppose are number fields with the same Galois closure , and let . Letting , if is a rational prime unramified in with Frobenius class , we have if and only if , which is equivalent to , since is the Galois closure of , and is a -conjugacy class. In particular, . ∎
Proposition 1.6.
Suppose are ultra-coarsely arithmetically equivalent number fields, and let be the finite set of rational primes such that . If , and is a positive integer with no prime divisor in , we may write unambiguously for dividing , and, furthermore, if , there is with and , where and are the prime divisors of .
Proof.
Given a prime not in , we know , , so if , there is such that . If , we know that , so there is such that , for . Setting , we know that is the absolute norm of some ideal in , so that , and furthermore, , so that . ∎
1.4. -Groups of Odd Index
The -theory of a number field is a more contemporary invariant. We will restrict our attention here to groups with odd. We show that arithmetically equivalent fields have the same -groups with odd and record some useful facts about the groups for the convenience of the reader. More details can be found in Section 5.3 of [Wei] or Chapter VI of [Wei13].
The -groups are abelian, and . For odd , is a finitely generated group, given by the following rule.
where is the number of real (complex) places of , , and
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is a primitive root of unity, and is the -adic valuation associated to the rational prime .
Proposition 1.7.
If are arithmetically equivalent number fields, then for odd , we have .
Proof.
Since the are arithmetically equivalent, we know they have the same signature. Furthermore, given a primitive root of unity , we know that , so , since . ∎
1.5. Diagrams in (Co)Homology and Corresponding Abelian Covers
We say that manifolds are integrally equivalent if there are coverings with normal closure a -covering, where is an integral Gassmann triple, and is the subcover corresponding to . Arapura et. al. construct non-isometric integrally equivalent closed hyperbolic manifolds [AKMS19]. Their results imply that for integrally equivalent manifolds with contractible universal cover, there are isomorphisms in cohomology natural with respect to restriction (corestriction) from (to) . These already suggest a correspondence of the abelian covers when the manifolds are closed and orientable, by Poincare duality. We show that there are similar isomorphisms in homology and define a correspondence of the abelian covers of integrally equivalent manifolds and , as follows. Covers correspond if , are finite index subgroups such that the isomorphism restricts to an isomorphism , and is the preimage of under the projection . The diagrams in homology and cohomology are obtained using group (co)homology arguments 111We pursue group (co)homological relations afforded by integral Gassmann triples insofar as they elucidate our geometric correspondence, but there is much more to be said. Homological relations in the spirit of Stallings’ Theorem and applications thereof are explored in [GM23]. 222A conceivable approach to our study of corresponding abelian extensions would be to lead with the group (co)homological results from Section 5 and then define our correspondence using the isomorphism in first homology from Corollary 5.2, with an integral Gassmann triple of absolute Galois groups of number fields. As we will see, the adelic approach taken in Section 4 allows us to easily circumvent the coprimality assumptions needed in Theorem 5.4 (c.f. Theorem 4.2). in Section 5, and the more geometrically flavored Theorem 1.8 is obtained as a quick corollary.
Theorem 1.8.
If is a manifold with contractible universal cover, and are integrally equivalent degree covers, then corresponding abelian covers , of degree have the same normal closure over when .
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my advisor Ben McReynolds for all his help, and I would like to thank Daniel Le for his helpful comments and a clarifying conversation about algebraic tori. I would also like to thank Milana Golich and Justin Katz for conversation on this work. Thanks also to Zachary Selk and Dustin Lee Enyeart for helpful comments that improved the quality of exposition.
2. Solomatin’s Theorem
This section is devoted to proving the following theorem. We take liberties with certain details of the exposition and proof but mostly follow [Sol19]. Given a group , we use to denote the character group of homomorphisms .
Theorem 2.1.
[Sol19] If is the set of Dedekind zeta functions of finite abelian extensions of a number field , then if and only if .
Note that implies . Indeed, there is an abelian extension such that , but then for some abelian extension , so that
and therefore . Before proving Theorem 2.1, we review preliminary results and set terminology.
Given a finite cyclic group and a Galois extension of number fields with subfield , letting , we call a wreathing extension of by if the following four conditions are satisfied.
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is Galois with group
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where the action of the semi-direct product is permutation of cosets according to left multiplication. When knowledge of is either implicit or unnecessary, we refer to as a wreathing extension of by .
Theorem 2.2.
[CdSL+18] Given a finite Galois extension of number fields, a subfield , and a finite cyclic group , there is a wreathing extension of by .
Given a wreathing extension of by , set , so that , and arrange so that the first coordinate of is fixed by (i.e. the first coordinate corresponds to the coset ). Letting , to we associate the morphism
If , a homomorphism determines a one-dimensional representation of , which we denote . Note that each gives a Dirichlet character of via the composition
which we also refer to as . We will further abuse notation and identify with , where . Two lemmas are needed for the proof of the theorem.
Lemma 2.3.
If is a wreathing extension of a number field by a finite cyclic group of order greater than , and is a number field admitting a Dirichlet character satisfying , then .
Proof.
Follows from the proof of Theorem 10.1 in [CdSL+18]. ∎
Lemma 2.4.
If is a wreathing extension of a number field by a finite cyclic group , and is non-trivial, then the induced representation is irreducible.
Proof.
We use to denote the identity element of . Let be a complete set of representatives for , and assume without loss of generality that . Then , , is a complete set of coset representatives for , and decomposes as
We argue that the action of on is transitive by showing for . Recall that we arrange so that the first coordinate of is fixed by , and let . Note that if , there is such that the coefficient of in is non-zero, so it suffices to prove the claim under the assumption with . Under this assumption, let . Compute , so that . Since is not trivial, we know , and hence . ∎
We may now prove Solomatin’s Theorem. Any properties of Artin -functions used below can be found in Lemma 10.2 in [CdSL+18].
Proof of Theorem 2.1.
We need only show that implies , as the converse is obvious. Let be a number field and a wreathing extension of by a cyclic group of order , and take to be the abelian extension given by , where . Observe that via . Now suppose for a number field , so that and for some abelian extension . Letting denote the trivial representation and , we know that
so that and hence
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Similarly, implies
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Now, , where is the permutation representation given by the left multiplication action of on , which factors through the left regular representation of . Letting , equation 3 can therefore be rewritten
which, along with equation 2 implies
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where is the character induced by . Now, one has , so that either side of equation 4 has direct summands, and by Lemma 2.4, each summand on the left hand side is an irreducible representation, so that the right hand side of equation 4 also consists of irreducible representations. Since is a summand of the left hand side of equation 4, we conclude there is such that . But then
so that , by Lemma 2.3. ∎
3. Quasi-split Tori and Idele Norm
In this section, we prove that taking adelic points of a certain group scheme recovers the idele norm. This result is likely known to experts, but for the sake of completeness and for lack of a suitable reference, we include a proof. We write for the separable closure of a field , and will denote the multiplicative group scheme. We are interested in relating Weyl restriction of to the idele norm. For further discussion of the lemmas, see Chapter 2 in [PR94]. Given a subset of an abelian group, we will use the notation to denote the sum . We will also write in place of given elements of a group .
Let be a local or global field. It is well-known that finite-dimensional -tori correspond to finitely generated free abelian groups, equipped with an action of , via a contravariant equivalence of categories. In particular, the group-module corresponding to a -torus is its character group . Since is finite-dimensional over , it splits over a finite Galois extension . Furthermore, if is a so-called quasi-split torus and , there is a finite -set and a -equivariant isomorphism , where the right hand side is a direct product of copies of , indexed by with -action given by permutation of coordinates. This induces an action of on the character group. The set of quasi-split tori is precisely the set of products of Weyl restrictions of (c.f. Chapter 2 in [PR94]). A straightforward adaptation of the proof of Theorem 7.5 in [Wat79] yields the following.
Lemma 3.1.
Given Galois with group and subextension , letting, and , the character group of is .
We will need an additional observation before proving the main theorem. Let , and let be the -scheme corresponding to the morphism . The -form of has associated Hopf algebra morphism
where is the coordinate given by , and is a full set of coset representatives for , so that taking -points of recovers the usual field norm. In summary:
Lemma 3.2.
The -scheme corresponding to the inclusion of modules has -points given by the field norm .
With the lemmas recorded, we are ready to state and prove the theorem.
Theorem 3.3.
Let be a Galois extension of number fields with group , and suppose is the stabilizer of the subfield , , and . If is the morphism of -modules given by , and is the scheme corresponding to , then is the idele norm.
Proof.
It suffices to check componentwise, so we need to compute for a place of . To do so, we view as a -module, where is a place of over , and is the associated decomposition group. Let be a complete set of representatives in for the double cosets . If is the -orbit of in , then . Furthermore, if , then , so that, if is the morphism , we have the decomposition
Therefore, letting be the -scheme corresponding to , we have
It thus remains to determine . Now, it is well known that each corresponds to a place of over . More explicitly, we can let and take to be the place of divided by , so that and . Letting , observe that the maps
determine an isomorphism of Galois representations allowing an identification , where is the -scheme corresponding to the morphism . By Lemma 3.2, we know that is the field norm . It follows that is the component over of the idele norm . ∎
4. Corresponding Abelian Extensions
Let and be number fields integrally equivalent over . Writing Res, the isomorphism gives an isomorphism , by Lemma 3.1. The -points of the are therefore isomorphic , as are the -points , where denotes the ring of -adeles. Furthermore, the isomorphism of ideles respects the diagonal embeddings , so we can quotient to get an isomorphism of idele class groups [Pra17]. By class field theory, a finite abelian extension is uniquely determined by the finite-index open subgroup of given by the image of the idele class norm . Moreover, every finite-index open subgroup of is such an image:
We say that and correspond if . Observe that induces an isomorphism of Galois groups , so that, in particular, , which implies . We state the following proposition without proof, as it is an immediate consequence of our definition of corresponding abelian extensions.
Proposition 4.1.
Suppose , correspond, and correspond. Then , correspond and , correspond.
The remainder of this section is devoted to fleshing out the relations between corresponding and . Specifically, in Section 4.1, we prove Theorem 1.1, and then in Section 4.2, we demonstrate that the are not even weakly Kronecker equivalent in general. Throughout the sequel, , will denote corresponding abelian extensions of integrally equivalent number fields. We will also freely identify (product over some finite set of places) with its image under the projection . Whether we are working in the idele group or the idele class group should be clear from context. Lastly, given an abelian extension and a place of , we will refer to the completion of at a place over simply as , since for places of over .
4.1. Arithmetic Similarity
Given a place of , all direct products from here on are over the places (or ) of dividing , unless otherwise stated. We know that , so applying to gives an isomorphism
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Define by . Recall that
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and
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See Chapter X in [Tat08] and Chapter V in [Ser79] for details. The functions provide a means of probing the locally. This proves fruitful, allowing us to compare, respectively, , , and the Galois closure of , . Then, in Theorem 4.9 we will make use of the Norm Limitation Theorem from global class field theory to conclude that corresponding extensions have the same maximal abelian sub-extension over , which allows us to relate their -groups. We begin with an observation shedding light on both the Galois closures and the .
Proposition 4.2.
If are integrally equivalent number fields over , with corresponding abelian extensions , , then and have the same Galois closure.
Proof.
Recall that the Galois closure of an extension of number fields is uniquely determined by the set of primes in which split completely in . Thus, it suffices to show that a prime of splits completely in if and only if it does so in . Now, splits completely in if and only if it splits completely in and Gal is trivial for each place of over . But then, since and are integrally equivalent over , we know that splits completely in if and only if it does so in . Furthermore, by equation 6, Gal for every over if and only if . Since in equation 5 restricts to an isomorphism , we know that if and only if . Thus splits completely in if and only if it does so in , so the indeed have the same Galois closure over . ∎
Corollary 4.3.
Corresponding abelian extensions are ultra-coarsely arithmetically equivalent in the sense of Proposition 1.6.
Before stating and proving the next corollary, we fix some terminology. Say that a rational prime splits relatively completely in if every prime of over splits completely in , and observe that arguments in the proof of Proposition 4.2 guarantee that a rational prime splits relatively completely in if and only if it does so in .
Corollary 4.4.
If , and is an integer whose prime divisors all split relatively completely in the , , then .
Proof.
Let consist of those rational primes which split relatively completely in the , . For , let
where the primes are in . A positive integer is in with multiplicity equal to the number of prime ideals in with absolute norm , and counts the number of ideals in whose absolute norm is only divisible by primes in . For , , since and splits relatively completely in , . Therefore, we have . Now, if every prime divisor of is in , then is the coefficient of in , and we conclude . ∎
Remark 4.5.
By Grunwald-Wang, given a finite set of rational primes, the can be chosen to split relatively completely over each . In particular, given , there are corresponding abelian extensions such that for any with .
Arithmetically equivalent have the same signature and contain the same roots of unity, so there is an abstract isomorphism . For integrally equivalent , it turns out that the isomorphism in fact restricts to an isomorphism . The keystone is Proposition 4.6, which may also be leveraged to relate the discriminants of the .
Proposition 4.6.
restricts to an isomorphism .
Proof.
Let be the number of distinct prime divisors of in (note this is independent of whether or ), , . We know , so , and therefore . But then, letting denote the projection , we know that is free abelian of rank and . Now, the are virtually pro-, so they have no nontrivial free abelian quotients. Therefore, , so . The inclusion is a consequence of the decomposition of above, because otherwise would surject a nontrivial free abelian group. ∎
Corollary 4.7.
The isomorphism restricts to an isomorphism .
Proof.
Follows from Proposition 4.6, along with the facts that is precisely the set of elements of with -adic valuation equal to for every place of , and is precisely the set of elements of with -adic valuation equal to . ∎
Corollary 4.8.
A rational prime divides if and only if it divides .
Proof.
Note by equation 7 that a rational prime is unramified in if and only if it is unramified in and , where , and . But then the are arithmetically equivalent, so they are unramified over the same rational primes, and Proposition 4.6 says that if and only if . Hence, a rational prime is unramified in if and only if it is unramified in . Since the prime divisors of are exactly those rational primes which ramify in , the claim holds. ∎
We have now come to the main theorem of this section, whose proof requires Theorem 3.3 and class field theory. Theorem 4.9 is used to relate the odd -groups of corresponding abelian extensions.
Theorem 4.9.
If denotes the idele class norm , then . In particular, and contain the same maximal abelian subextension.
Proof.
Let , be the -equivariant linear isomorphism , and define
Since the action of on is transitive, is the only rank 1 submodule fixed pointwise by . But then for each , so for some . Notice that corresponds to the vector when we use the cosets as a basis for , so in fact is an eigenvalue of . Since and are each represented in this basis by an invertible integer matrix, . Letting be the scheme corresponding to the -module morphism , we therefore have the commutative diagram of schemes
where the bottom isomorphism is either the identity or inversion. Taking -points gives
where the vertical arrows are the idele norms, by Theorem 3.3. The diagonal embeddings are respected, so we can pass to idele class groups and obtain the following commutative diagram.
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Corollary 4.10.
Fixing a separable closure of , if , and is abelian, then and correspond.
Proof.
Suppose . By Theorem 4.9, and have the same maximal abelian subextension, so . Hence . But then, , so . We can just as easily argue that , so in fact , and thus , so . By symmetry we conclude that if and only if . In other words, and are corresponding abelian extensions. ∎
Proposition 4.11.
If is odd, then and have the same signature.
Proof.
Let and set and . If is odd, then the image of under the map is trivial, as is a -group. Therefore, . In particular, no archimedean prime of ramifies in . Since and have the same signature, so do and .
Alternatively, let be the group of the Galois closure of the over , and let be a subgroup of order or . Because and are integrally equivalent over , they are arithmetically equivalent, so by Proposition 2.6 in [Sut],
But then the image of is trivial under the projection , so if and only if , and therefore
By Proposition 2.2 in [Sut], it follows that as -sets. This is then true, in particular, for a decomposition group of the archimedean prime. ∎
Proposition 4.12.
If denotes the torsion part of for a number field , then for odd mod , . Furthermore, if is odd, then for odd .
Proof.
Let , , be corresponding abelian extensions and an odd integer. If , then we know the first claim holds, since the have the same roots of unity, by Theorem 4.9, so assume additionally that . Letting , where is a primitive -th root of unity, we know by equation 1 that the torsion part of is determined by for odd not congruent to mod . From Proposition 4.1 and Corollary 4.10, we know that and correspond for any primitive root of unity , since . Therefore, , and this isomorphism restricts to an isomorphism , by the definition of corresponding abelian extensions. Therefore, for each prime . This verifies that for mod . Supposing now that is odd, then by Proposition 4.11, the signatures of the are the same, so for any odd . ∎
4.2. Corresponding Abelian Extensions That Are Not Weakly Kronecker Equivalent
We prove that non-isomorphic integrally equivalent number fields always possess corresponding abelian extensions that are not weakly Kronecker equivalent. Before proving the main result of this subsection, we need to set the stage with some lemmas. We use to denote the standard basis vector.
Lemma 4.13.
If is a non-trivial integral Gassmann triple333i.e. the are not conjugate in of finite groups, and is the matrix expressing the -module isomorphism using cosets as bases, then each row of contains multiple non-zero components.
Proof.
Since the groups are finite and are not conjugate in , we know that for every , there is such that . In particular, letting be the basis element corresponding to the coset and be a complete set of coset representatives for , then if and , there is such that , so that and . In particular, the row of has at least two non-zero components. By -equivariance, we conclude that any row with a non-zero component must have multiple nonzero components. But then is invertible, so every row has at least one non-zero component.
∎
Lemma 4.14.
Call a sublattice of the standard lattice in Euclidean space normal if it has a basis consisting of integral multiples of the standard basis. The maximal normal sublattice of the lattice given by the -span of the columns of is , where it the least positive integer such that .
Proof.
The component of any element of is an integer multiple of the least positive such that , since is a normal sublattice. However, if and only if . ∎
Lemma 4.15.
Let be a rational prime that splits completely in integrally equivalent number fields , , and set . Identifying with , the automorphism determined by the linear isomorphism induced by in equation 5 is precisely the transpose of the matrix expressing the -equivariant linear isomorphism with bases given by the cosets .
Proof.
A map of sets determines an extension to a linear map , which we also refer to as . Let be the character group of , and suppose is a full set of representatives for , with the preimage of under the isomorphism . Since splits completely in , we know , and a morphism is uniquely determined by the -tuple . Denote by the isomorphism , and let be given by . Observe that , so that, if is given by , then , where for vectors , we are writing . Now, write , where is a unit. Passing to the quotient , we see that the image of is identified with , while the image of is identified with . ∎
Recall from Corollary 4.8 that a rational prime is unramified in if and only if it is unramified in . With and as in Corollary 4.8, let and . Identifying with , view as a sublattice. Note that the orders of the relative decomposition groups for over a rational prime unramified in are exactly the positive multiples of the standard basis vectors forming a basis of the largest normal sublattice in , by equation 6. Though certainly can be a normal sublattice in , this is by no means the case in general (c.f. [Tat08] Chapters VII and X).
Theorem 4.16.
Given non-isomorphic integrally equivalent number fields, there exist corresponding abelian extensions which are not weakly Kronecker equivalent.
Proof.
Suppose are non-isomorphic, integrally equivalent number fields whose Galois closure over has group , and let be a -equivariant isomorphism inducing a correspondence of the abelian extensions of the . If is an odd rational prime that splits completely in the , by a Grunwald-Wang argument (for instance, intersecting appropriate subgroups of guaranteed to exist by Theorem 6 in Chapter X of [Tat08]), given a prime coprime to every cofactor of , there is an abelian extension of in which is unramified with . In particular, is equal to its maximal normal sublattice, and . Now, let . By Lemma 4.15, we know that is given by the -span of the columns of , so the splitting type of in is given by the set of least positive integers such that is integral, by Lemma 4.14. Since is -equivariant, so is . Furthermore, because , every row of has multiple non-zero entries, by Lemma 4.13. If denotes the cofactor matrix of , we know that , so every column of has multiple non-zero entries. Now, , and every column of has multiple non-zero entries, so is integral if and only if , by choice of , so the splitting type of in is . Therefore, , while , so the are not weakly Kronecker equivalent, by Theorem 1.4. ∎
Remark 4.17.
We know that a non-trivial correspondence of abelian extensions cannot preserve arithmetic equivalence classes (c.f. Theorem 2.1). We have also just seen that a correspondence of abelian extensions induced by a non-trivial integral equivalence of number fields cannot preserve weak Kronecker equivalence classes. The question remains whether or not this is a general phenomenon. In other words, letting denote the weak Kronecker class of a number field , if are number fields admitting a bijective correspondence of abelian extensions such that for every abelian extension of , does it follow that ?
5. Diagrams in Homology and Cohomology
Given an integral Gassmann triple and a -module , Arapura et. al proved that there are isomorphisms in cohomology compatible with corestriction to and restriction from , where the -module structure on is (A) [AKMS19]. We show that there are in fact compatible isomorphisms , where denotes either or . Furthermore, for a finite index normal subgroup of contained in , and a finite abelian group of order coprime to , we demonstrate that is also compatible with restriction and corestriction to and from, respectively, . If , are index subgroups such that restricts to an isomorphism , we say that and correspond. Furthermore, if is the preimage of in under the natural projection , then we say and correspond if and do. We show in Theorem 5.4 that corresponding and have the same normal core in , assuming is coprime to . Theorem 1.8 is then proved as a corollary. In Proposition 5.6, we conclude with an arithmetic application of the techniques in this section. Throughout, , , and if coefficients are not specified for a (co)homology group, the coefficients are with trivial action.
Lemma 5.1.
If are finite and transitive -sets, then an isomorphism of -modules, or its negative, is natural with respect to both the diagonal embeddings and the augmentations . Precisely, either and , or and .
Proof.
Let be the matrix expressing the isomorphism with respect to the bases . Observe as in the proof of Proposition 4.9 that, by -equivariance, is an eigenvector of , and therefore . Furthermore, letting denote the dual -module to consisting of all -linear maps , with -action given by , for , , then the induced -module isomorphism is expressed by with respect to the dual bases . We conclude that is an eigenvector of . Observe that is precisely , so . Finally, note that if , and , then
Since , we conclude . ∎
Corollary 5.2.
If is an integral Gassmann triple, then, given a -module , there is a commutative diagram
where denotes either or , and the -module structure on is (A).
Proof.
Letting , recall that restriction (resp. corestriction ) in (co)homology is obtained by tensoring the diagonal embedding (resp. augmentation morphism ) with , then applying and Shapiro’s Lemma (c.f. [Bro82] III.5.6 and III.9.A). By Lemma 5.1, there is a commutative diagram of -module morphisms
Tensoring with then applying and Shapiro’s Lemma yields the desired result. ∎
From here on, is an integral Gassmann triple, , and is a -module, unless stated otherwise. We use to denote the isomorphism from Corollary 5.2.
Lemma 5.3.
Let be a finite abelian group of order coprime to , and let be a finite index normal subgroup of contained in . There is a commutative diagram of the following form.
Proof.
Because , and , , the action of on by right multiplication is trivial, so that . Now, we know that
where the sum is over representatives for the set of double cosets (c.f. Proposition 9.5 in Chapter III of [Bro82]). Clearly, , and, because , we know that , so . Since , we conclude . But then is coprime to , so , as desired.
Let , and recall that , so that
(9) |
Similarly as before, we know that
Now, and is the identity map, so we conclude . Therefore, by equation 9, we have , and we see that . ∎
Recall that restriction and corestriction are induced by chain maps. With the hypotheses of Lemma 5.3 and an abelian group with trivial -action, viewing as a subgroup of as in the the universal coefficient theorem, the diagram
commutes, by Lemma 5.3 and naturality of the inclusion . The upward maps are , and the downward maps are . Recall that a finite abelian group is naturally a commutative ring with identity, and let and be abelian groups, with finite. For us, the map is always the abelian group homomorphism . We may now prove the main theorem of this section.
Theorem 5.4.
If , are corresponding index subgroups, then and have the same normal core in if .
Proof.
Suppose for a finite abelian group of order coprime to , and fix projections such that and is the preimage of under the natural map . Apply the functor , viewing as a trivial -module, to the corresponding commutative diagram, and extend the result to the commutative diagram
where is inclusion, is the normal core of in , and the horizontal maps are of the form . The proof of Theorem 1 in [Per77] guarantees that is independent of choice of . Since the map is injective, and the diagram
commutes for , the kernel of the map is , and we conclude . Now, if is the normal core of in , we know that , so that is equal to the normal core of in , and therefore . ∎
Remark 5.5.
Letting be the projection , note the argument above shows that in fact for when is coprime to . It is not clear to the author how one could draw a similar conclusion without the coprimality assumption.
Proof of Theorem 1.8.
Recall the usual identification for a manifold with contractible universal cover, and observe that the map induced by a covering is corestriction . The subgroup of corresponding to the normal closure of under the covering space Galois correspondence is precisely the normal core of in . The rest follows from Theorem 5.4 and the fact that is an integral Gassmann triple. ∎
We conclude with an application to the arithmetic correspondence. The proof is only sketched, as all the requisite ideas have been discussed in greater detail in this article.
Proposition 5.6.
If , are corresponding abelian extensions of number fields integrally equivalent over , letting be the Galois closure of the over , if is coprime to , then .
Proof.
Let be a Galois extension with group and subextension . If , and is the scheme corresponding to the augmentation map , one can show that , modulo principle ideles, gives the map induced by inclusion . This observation, along with Theorem 3.3 and Lemma 5.1, reveals that for integrally equivalent number fields and , there is an isomorphism such that following diagram commutes.
where the upward arrows are idele class norms and the downward arrows are the maps induced by inclusion. Functoriality of the global Artin map (c.f. [RV99] Section 6.4) then guarantees commutativity of the following diagram.
where, identifying abelianization with the functor , the downward arrows are restriction and the upward arrows are corestriction in first homology. From here, reason similarly as we have in this section to conclude that . ∎
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