An application of the generalized norm residue symbol

Abstract

Let k be an algebraic number field of finite degree or an algebraic function field of dimension 1 with finite constant field and let K/k be a finite, separably Galois extension field. We call an algebraic extension field L, not necessarily Galois nor necessarily of finite degree, of K an everywhere locally abelian extension, denoted in the following as EL-abelian extension, for brevity, of K over k, if and only if for every finite extension L' of K in L and every valuation v of L it holds that the completion field Lv' of L' with reference to v is a composition field of KV and an abelian extension Mv of kv in Lv', where we denote by kv and KV the closures of k and K in Lv', respectively. Let Q be an algebraic closure of K, BK/k the maximum separably EL-abelian extension of K/k in Q, CK/k the maximum separably central extension of K/k in Q (i.e. the maximum extension CK/k which is separably normal over k, contains K, and has the Galois group of CK/k/K in the center of the Galois group of CK/k/k), Ik and IK the groups of the ideles of k and K, Ak and AK the maximum separably abelian extensions of k and K in Q, respectively. Let DK/k=BK/k nCKIk. Then, the norm residue symbol 0Jk in Ak/k is, if restricted into NK/kIK, extensible into a homomorphism UK/k of NK/kIK into the Galois group G(DK/k/K). We shall study in the present article arithmetical meanings of the extensibility. In ?1, we shall define oUK/k precisely, in ?2, study the kernel and obtain a principal genus theorem (Theorem 2), from which will follow easily a certain generalized formulation of some fundamental theorems in the class field theory.1 Combining it with a known property2 of the quotient group of the connected component of the unit element of the idele class group by the natural image of the maximal compact subgroup of the connected component of the unit element of the idele group, we shall obtain, in ?3, our main result (Theorem 8), which concerns total norm residues in the principal idele group of k for K/k, and which is, the author thinks, an idele-theoretic reconstruction of a research of Scholz.3