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The shapes of pure cubic fields

Number Theory 2016-05-26 v2

Abstract

We determine the shapes of pure cubic fields and show that they fall into two families based on whether the field is wildly or tamely ramified (of Type I or Type II in the sense of Dedekind). We show that the shapes of Type I fields are rectangular and that they are equidistributed, in a regularized sense, when ordered by discriminant, in the one-dimensional space of all rectangular lattices. We do the same for Type II fields, which are however no longer rectangular. We obtain as a corollary of the determination of these shapes that the shape of a pure cubic field is a complete invariant determining the field within the family of all cubic fields.

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@article{arxiv.1509.01627,
  title  = {The shapes of pure cubic fields},
  author = {Robert Harron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01627},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the AMS. Postprint version. Comments welcome!

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