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Orbital integrals and ideal class monoids for a Bass order

Number Theory 2025-09-30 v3

Abstract

A Bass order is an order of a number field whose fractional ideals are generated by two elements. The majority of number fields contain infinitely many Bass orders. For example, any order of a number field which contains the maximal order of a subfield with degree 2 or whose discriminant is fourth-power-free in Z\mathbb{Z}, is a Bass order. In this paper, we will propose a closed formula for the number of fractional ideals of a Bass order RR, up to its invertible ideals, using the conductor of RR. Since RR is a Bass order, this is the same as the number of overorders of RR. We will also explain the explicit enumeration of all orders containing RR. Our method is based on the local-global argument and the exhaustion argument, using orbital integrals for gln\mathfrak{gl}_n as a mass formula.

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@article{arxiv.2408.16199,
  title  = {Orbital integrals and ideal class monoids for a Bass order},
  author = {Sungmun Cho and Jungtaek Hong and Yuchan Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16199},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

46 pages, minor revision (improved presentation)

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