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Equidistribution of realizable Steinitz classes for cyclic Kummer extensions

Number Theory 2025-11-10 v5

Abstract

Let \ell be prime, and KK be a number field containing the \ell-th roots of unity. We use classical algebraic number theory and some analytic techniques to prove that the Steinitz classes of Z/Z\mathbb Z/\ell\mathbb Z extensions of KK ordered by relative discriminant are equidistributed among realizable classes in the ideal class group of KK. For =2\ell = 2, 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-mm extensions using the theory of Galois modules; our approach eliminates this tameness hypothesis.

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@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

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