English

Chebyshev's bias in dihedral and generalized quaternion Galois groups

Number Theory 2021-06-10 v2

Abstract

We study the inequities in the distribution of Frobenius elements in Galois extensions of the rational numbers with Galois groups that are either dihedral D2nD_{2n} or (generalized) quaternion H2n\mathbb H_{2n} of two-power order. In the spirit of recent work of Fiorilli and Jouve arXiv:2001.05428, we study, under natural hypotheses, some families of such extensions, in a horizontal aspect, where the degree is fixed, and in a vertical aspect, where the degree goes to infinity. Our main contribution uncovers in families of extensions a phenomenon, for which Ng gave numerical evidence : real zeros of Artin L-functions sometimes have a radical influence on the distribution of Frobenius elements.

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@article{arxiv.2001.06671,
  title  = {Chebyshev's bias in dihedral and generalized quaternion Galois groups},
  author = {Alexandre Bailleul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06671},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

41 pages, minor corrections were made. To appear in Algebra & Number Theory Issue 15-4