Noether's Problem on Semidirect Product Groups
Commutative Algebra
2017-04-25 v1
Abstract
Let be a field, a finite group. Let act on the function field by for any . Denote the fixed field of the action by . Noether's problem asks whether is rational (purely transcendental) over . It is known that if is a semidirect product of cyclic groups and with a unique factorization domain, and contains an th primitive root of unity, where is the exponent of , then is rational over . In this paper, we give another criteria to determine whether is rational over . In particular, if are prime numbers and there exists such that the norm , then is rational over .
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@article{arxiv.1704.07053,
title = {Noether's Problem on Semidirect Product Groups},
author = {Huah Chu and Shang Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07053},
year = {2017}
}