On Noether's problem for cyclic groups of prime order
Abstract
Let be a field and be a finite group acting on the rational function field by -automorphisms for any . Noether's problem asks whether the invariant field is rational (i.e. purely transcendental) over . In 1974, Lenstra gave a necessary and sufficient condition to this problem for abelian groups . However, even for the cyclic group of prime order , it is unknown whether there exist infinitely many primes such that is rational over . Only known primes for which is rational over are and . We show that for primes , is not (stably) rational over except for affirmative primes and undetermined primes. Under the GRH, the generalized Riemann hypothesis, we also confirm that is not (stably) rational over for undetermined primes out of .
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@article{arxiv.1402.3678,
title = {On Noether's problem for cyclic groups of prime order},
author = {Akinari Hoshi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3678},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
21 pages, Added remark 3.2 is added