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Eisenstein-prime Obstruction Sieve for Monogenicity

Number Theory 2026-02-12 v1

Abstract

Alp\"oge--Bhargava--Shnidman showed that even a strengthened \emph{no local obstruction} condition for monogenicity does not force a global power integral basis: in the full spaces of cubic and quartic fields, a positive proportion are non-monogenic yet satisfy this ABS fixed-sign condition. This raises a natural family-level question: does the same phenomenon persist inside one-parameter families, where the local structure varies in a highly constrained way? In this paper we answer this in the negative for the pure fields Km=Q(α)K_m=\mathbb Q(\alpha) with αn=m\alpha^n=m (n4n\ge 4) and mm square-free. Writing g(m)=[OKm:Z[α]]g(m)=[\mathcal O_{K_m}:\mathbb Z[\alpha]], we prove that the set of square-free mm for which g(m)>1g(m)>1 but KmK_m has no ABS local obstruction has natural density 00. Consequently, in the pure family monogenicity and α\alpha--monogenicity have the same natural density. The proof isolates a reusable mechanism, which we call the Eisenstein-prime obstruction sieve. The argument is packaged in an abstract template and transfers to other Eisenstein parameter families.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2602.10488,
  title  = {Eisenstein-prime Obstruction Sieve for Monogenicity},
  author = {Khai-Hoan Nguyen-Dang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.10488},
  year   = {2026}
}

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