GEOMETRIC GALOIS THEORY, NONLINEAR NUMBER FIELDS AND A GALOIS GROUP INTERPRETATION OF THE IDELE CLASS GROUP

Abstract

This paper concerns the description of holomorphic extensions of algebraic number fields. After expanding the notion of adele class group to number fields of infinite degree over ℚ, a hyperbolized adele class group [Formula: see text] is assigned to every number field K/ℚ. The projectivization of the Hardy space ℙ𝖧•[K] of graded-holomorphic functions on [Formula: see text] possesses two operations ⊕ and ⊗ giving it the structure of a nonlinear field extension of K. We show that the Galois theory of these nonlinear number fields coincides with their discrete counterparts in that 𝖦𝖺𝗅(ℙ𝖧•[K]/K) = 1 and 𝖦𝖺𝗅(ℙ𝖧•[L]/ℙ𝖧•[K]) ≅ 𝖦𝖺𝗅(L/K) if L/K is Galois. If K ab denotes the maximal abelian extension of K and 𝖢K is the idele class group, it is shown that there are embeddings of 𝖢K into 𝖦𝖺𝗅⊕(ℙ𝖧•[K ab ]/K) and 𝖦𝖺𝗅⊗(ℙ𝖧•[K ab ]/K), the "Galois groups" of automorphisms preserving ⊕ (respectively, ⊗) only.