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The distribution of $H_{8}$-extensions of quadratic fields

Number Theory 2017-06-07 v2

Abstract

We compute all the moments of a normalization of the function which counts unramified H8H_{8}-extensions of quadratic fields, where H8H_{8} is the quaternion group of order 8, and show that the values of this function determine a constant distribution. Furthermore we propose a similar modification to the non-abelian Cohen-Lenstra heuristics for unramified G-extensions of quadratic fields for G in a large class of 2-groups, which we conjecture will give finite moments which determine a distribution. Our method additionally can be used to determine the asymptotics of the unnormalized counting function, which we also do for unramified H8H_{8}-extensions.

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@article{arxiv.1611.05595,
  title  = {The distribution of $H_{8}$-extensions of quadratic fields},
  author = {Brandon Alberts and Jack Klys},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05595},
  year   = {2017}
}