Equidistribution of realizable Steinitz classes for cyclic Kummer extensions
Abstract
Let be prime, and be a number field containing the -th roots of unity. We use classical algebraic number theory and some analytic techniques to prove that the Steinitz classes of extensions of ordered by relative discriminant are equidistributed among realizable classes in the ideal class group of . For , this was proved by Kable and Wright using the deep theory of prehomogeneous vector spaces. Foster proved that Steinitz classes are uniformly distributed between realizable classes for tamely ramified elementary- extensions using the theory of Galois modules; our approach eliminates this tameness hypothesis.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.12999,
title = {Equidistribution of realizable Steinitz classes for cyclic Kummer extensions},
author = {Brody Lynch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12999},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
28 pages, 1 figure. Final version. Small typographical error corrected from previous version. To appear in the Journal of Number Theory