Mathematics – Number Theory
Scientific paper
2010-07-05
Mathematics
Number Theory
Scientific paper
Let $N/F$ be an odd degree Galois extension of number fields with Galois group $G$ and rings of integers ${\mathfrak O}_N$ and ${\mathfrak O}_F=\bo$ respectively. Let $\mathcal{A}$ be the unique fractional ${\mathfrak O}_N$-ideal with square equal to the inverse different of $N/F$. Erez has shown that $\mathcal{A}$ is a locally free ${\mathfrak O}[G]$-module if and only if $N/F$ is a so called weakly ramified extension. There have been a number of results regarding the freeness of $\mathcal{A}$ as a $\Z[G]$-module, however this question remains open. In this paper we prove that $\mathcal{A}$ is free as a $\Z[G]$-module assuming that $N/F$ is weakly ramified and under the hypothesis that for every prime $\wp$ of ${\mathfrak O}$ which ramifies wildly in $N/F$, the decomposition group is abelian, the ramification group is cyclic and $\wp$ is unramified in $F/\Q$. We make crucial use of a construction due to the first named author which uses Dwork's exponential power series to describe self-dual integral normal bases in Lubin-Tate extensions of local fields. This yields a new and striking relationship between the local norm-resolvent and Galois Gauss sum involved. Our results generalise work of the second named author concerning the case of base field $\Q$.
Pickett Erik Jarl
Vinatier Stéphane
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