English

Counting Hopf-Galois Structures on Cyclic Field Extensions of Squarefree Degree

Rings and Algebras 2017-09-25 v2

Abstract

We investigate Hopf-Galois structures on a cyclic field extension L/KL/K of squarefree degree nn. By a result of Greither and Pareigis, each such Hopf-Galois structure corresponds to a group of order nn, whose isomorphism class we call the type of the Hopf-Galois structure. We show that every group of order nn can occur, and we determine the number of Hopf-Galois structures of each type. We then express the total number of Hopf-Galois structures on L/KL/K as a sum over factorisations of nn into three parts. As examples, we give closed expressions for the number of Hopf-Galois structures on a cyclic extension whose degree is a product of three distinct primes. (There are several cases, depending on congruence conditions between the primes.) We also consider one case where the degree is a product of four primes.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1703.09636,
  title  = {Counting Hopf-Galois Structures on Cyclic Field Extensions of Squarefree Degree},
  author = {Ali A. Alabdali and Nigel P. Byott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09636},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages; 4 tables. In this version, counts in Section 7.5 are corrected. Minor errors in the proofs of Propositions 3.6 and Lemma 5.3 (and a few typos) have been fixed. To appear in Journal of Algebra