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Let $k$ be a field with char $k\neq 2$ and $k$ be not algebraically closed. Let $a\in k\setminus k^2$ and $L=k(\sqrt{a})(x,y)$ be a field extension of $k$ where $x,y$ are algebraically independent over $k$. Assume that $\sigma$ is a $k$-automorphism on $L$ defined by \[ \sigma: \sqrt{a}\mapsto -\sqrt{a},\ x\mapsto \frac{b}{x},\ y\mapsto \frac{c(x+\frac{b}{x})+d}{y} \] where $b,c,d \in k$, $b\neq 0$ and at least one of $c,d$ is non-zero. Let $L^{\langle\sigma\rangle}=\{u\in L:\sigma(u)=u\}$ be the fixed subfield of $L$. We show that $L^{\langle\sigma\rangle}$ is isomorphic to the function field of a certain surface in $P^4_k$ which is given as the intersection of two quadrics. We give criteria for the $k$-rationality of $L^{\langle\sigma\rangle}$ by using the Hilbert symbol. As an appendix of the paper, we also give an alternative geometric proof of a part of the result which is provided to the authors by J.-L. Colliot-Th\'el\`ene., Comment: To appear in Manuscripta Math. The main theorems (old Theorem 1.7 and Theorem 1.8) incorporated into (new) Theorem 1.8. Section 3 and Section 4 interchanged

We study q-ary linear codes C obtained from Veronese surfaces over finite fields. We show how one can find the higher weight spectra of these codes, or equivalently, the weight distribution of all extension codes of C over all field extensions of the field with q elements. Our methods will be a study of the Stanley-Reisner rings of a series of matroids associated to each code C, 14 pages

Consider the abelian category ${\mathcal C}$ of commutative group schemes of finite type over a field $k$, its full subcategory ${\mathcal F}$ of finite group schemes, and the associated pro category ${\rm Pro}({\mathcal C})$ (resp. ${\rm Pro}({\mathcal F})$) of pro-algebraic (resp. profinite) group schemes. When $k$ is perfect, we show that the profinite fundamental group $\varpi_1 : {\rm Pro}({\mathcal C}) \to {\rm Pro}({\mathcal F})$ is left exact and commutes with base change under algebraic field extensions; as a consequence, the higher profinite homotopy functors $\varpi_i$ vanish for $i \geq 2$. Along the way, we describe the indecomposable projective objects of ${\rm Pro}({\mathcal C})$ over an arbitrary field $k$., Final version, accepted for publication at Annales Henri Lebesgue

Let $G$ be a group. Two elements $x,y \in G$ are said to be in the same $z$-class if their centralizers in $G$ are conjugate within $G$. Consider $\mathbb F$ a perfect field of characteristic $\neq 2$, which has a non-trivial Galois automorphism of order $2$. Further, suppose that the fixed field $\mathbb F_0$ has the property that it has only finitely many field extensions of any finite degree. In this paper, we prove that the number of $z$-classes in the unitary group over such fields is finite. Further, we count the number of $z$-classes in the finite unitary group $U_n(q)$, and prove that this number is same as that of $GL_n(q)$ when $q>n$., In section 2 Propositions 2.1, 2.2 are added and section 5 is added, final version

We study orbit codes in the field extension \begin{document}$ \mathbb{F}_{q^n} $\end{document} . First we show that the automorphism group of a cyclic orbit code is contained in the normalizer of the Singer subgroup if the orbit is generated by a subspace that is not contained in a proper subfield of \begin{document}$ \mathbb{F}_{q^n} $\end{document} . We then generalize to orbits under the normalizer of the Singer subgroup. In that situation some exceptional cases arise and some open cases remain. Finally we characterize linear isometries between such codes.

We consider Hopf-Galois structures on separable (but not necessarily normal) field extensions $L/K$ of squarefree degree $n$. If $E/K$ is the normal closure of $L/K$ then $G=\mathrm{Gal}(E/K)$ can be viewed as a permutation group of degree $n$. We show that $G$ has derived length at most $4$, but that many permutation groups of squarefree degree and of derived length $2$ cannot occur. We then investigate in detail the case where $n=pq$ where $q \geq 3$ and $p=2q+1$ are both prime. (Thus $q$ is a Sophie Germain prime and $p$ is a safeprime). We list the permutation groups $G$ which can arise, and we enumerate the Hopf-Galois structures for each $G$. There are six such $G$ for which the corresponding field extensions $L/K$ admit Hopf-Galois structures of both possible types., Comment: 26 pages. Proposition 4.12 and Table 5 corrected. Theorem 3.5 removed. Typos fixed and some improvements made to wording. Accepted for Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

Let k be a non-archimedean local field with residual characteristic p. Let G be a connected reductive group over k that splits over a tamely ramified field extension of k. Suppose p does not divide the order of the Weyl group of G. Then we show that every smooth irreducible complex representation of G(k) contains an $\mathfrak{s}$-type of the form constructed by Kim and Yu and that every irreducible supercuspidal representation arises from Yu's construction. This improves an earlier result of Kim, which held only in characteristic zero and with a very large and ineffective bound on p. By contrast, our bound on p is explicit and tight, and our result holds in positive characteristic as well. Moreover, our approach is more explicit in extracting an input for Yu's construction from a given representation., Comment: 39 pages, accepted for publication in Annals of Mathematics

In this paper, we consider the problem of computing the rank of a block-structured symbolic matrix (a generic partitioned matrix) $A = (A_{\alpha \beta} x_{\alpha \beta})$, where $A_{\alpha \beta}$ is a $2 \times 2$ matrix over a field $\mathbf{F}$ and $x_{\alpha \beta}$ is an indeterminate for $\alpha = 1,2,\dots, \mu$ and $\beta = 1,2, \dots, \nu$. This problem can be viewed as an algebraic generalization of the bipartite matching problem and was considered by Iwata and Murota (1995). Recent interests in this problem lie in the connection with non-commutative Edmonds' problem by Ivanyos, Qiao, and Subrahamanyam (2018) and Garg, Gurvits, Oliveiva, and Wigderson (2019), where a result by Iwata and Murota implicitly states that the rank and non-commutative rank (nc-rank) are the same for this class of symbolic matrices. The main result of this paper is a simple and combinatorial $O((\mu \nu)^2 \min \{ \mu, \nu \})$-time algorithm for computing the symbolic rank of a $(2 \times 2)$-type generic partitioned matrix of size $2\mu \times 2\nu$. Our algorithm is inspired by the Wong sequence algorithm by Ivanyos, Qiao, and Subrahamanyam for the nc-rank of a general symbolic matrix, and requires no blow-up operation, no field extension, and no additional care for bounding the bit-size. Moreover it naturally provides a maximum rank completion of $A$ for an arbitrary field $\mathbf{F}$., Comment: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Mathematical Programming. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-021-01676-5

A class of scattered linearized polynomials covering infinitely many field extensions is exhibited. More precisely, the q-polynomial over $${{\mathbb {F}}}_{q^6}$$ F q 6 , $$q \equiv 1\pmod 4$$ q ≡ 1 ( mod 4 ) described in Bartoli et al. (ARS Math Contemp 19:125–145, 2020) and Zanella and Zullo (Discrete Math 343:111800, 2020) is generalized for any even $$n\ge 6$$ n ≥ 6 to an $${{{\mathbb {F}}}_q}$$ F q -linear automorphism $$\psi (x)$$ ψ ( x ) of $${{\mathbb {F}}}_{q^n}$$ F q n of order n. Such $$\psi (x)$$ ψ ( x ) and some functional powers of it are proved to be scattered. In particular, this provides new maximum scattered linear sets of the projective line $${{\,\mathrm{{PG}}\,}}(1,q^n)$$ PG ( 1 , q n ) for $$n=8,10$$ n = 8 , 10 . The polynomials described in this paper lead to a new infinite family of MRD-codes in $${{\mathbb {F}}}_q^{n\times n}$$ F q n × n with minimum distance $$n-1$$ n - 1 for any odd q if $$n\equiv 0\pmod 4$$ n ≡ 0 ( mod 4 ) and any $$q\equiv 1\pmod 4$$ q ≡ 1 ( mod 4 ) if $$n\equiv 2\pmod 4$$ n ≡ 2 ( mod 4 ) .

Let $n$ be a squarefree natural number, and let $G$, $\Gamma$ be two groups of order $n$. We determine the number of Hopf-Galois structures of type $G$ admitted by a Galois extension of fields with Galois group isomorphic to $\Gamma$. We give some examples, including a full treatment of the case where $n$ is the product of three primes., Comment: 29 pages; arXiv identifier of our preprint on skew braces now included

We analyze the rel leaves of the Arnoux-Yoccoz translation surfaces. We show that for any genus $g \geq 3$, the leaf is dense in the connected component of the stratum $H(g -1 , g -1)$ to which it belongs, and the one-sided imaginary-rel trajectory of the surface is divergent. For one surface on this trajectory, namely the Arnoux-Yoccoz surface itself, the horizontal foliation is invariant under a pseudo-Anosov map (and in particular is uniquely ergodic), but for all other surfaces, the horizontal foliation is completely periodic. The appendix proves a field theoretic result needed for denseness of the leaf: for any $n \geq 3$, the field extension of the rationals obtained by adjoining a root of $X^n-X^{n-1}-\ldots-X-1$ has no totally real subfields other than the rationals., Comment: Appendix by Lior Bary-Soroker, Mark Shusterman and Umberto Zannier. The prior version was published, but had errors in \S 6. Erroneous statements have been indicated and an erratum was included as Appendix B which corrects the errors. Main results are still correct. 70 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1506.06773

In this short note, we answer a question raised by M. Papikian on a universal upper bound for the degree of the extension of $K_\infty$ given by adjoining the periods of a Drinfeld module of rank 2. We show that contrary to the rank 1 case such a universal upper bound does not exist, and the proof generalises to higher rank. Moreover, we give an upper and lower bound for the extension degree depending on the valuations of the defining coefficients of the Drinfeld module. In particular, the lower bound shows the non-existence of a universal upper bound., 7 pages; v1->v2: corrected typos, added/changed references, now 8 pages

The work of Greither and Pareigis details the enumeration of the Hopf-Galois structures (if any) on a given separable field extension. For an extension L / K which is classically Galois with G = G a l ( L / K ) the Hopf algebras in question are of the form ( L [ N ] ) G where N ≤ B = P e r m ( G ) is a regular subgroup that is normalized by the left regular representation λ ( G ) ≤ B . We consider the case where both G and N are isomorphic to a dihedral group D n for any n ≥ 3 . Using the normal block systems inherent to the left regular representation of each D n , (and every other regular permutation group isomorphic to D n ) we explicitly enumerate all possible such N which arise.

For $\Gamma$ a group of order $mp$ for $p$ prime where $gcd(p,m)=1$, we consider those regular subgroups $N\leq Perm(\Gamma)$ normalized by $\lambda(\Gamma)$, the left regular representation of $\Gamma$. These subgroups are in one-to-one correspondence with the Hopf-Galois structures on separable field extensions $L/K$ with $\Gamma=Gal(L/K)$. This is a follow up to the author's earlier work where, by assuming $p>m$, one has that all such $N$ lie within the normalizer of the $p$-Sylow subgroup of $\lambda(\Gamma)$. Here we show that one only need assume that all groups of a given order $mp$ have a unique $p$-Sylow subgroup, and that $p$ not be a divisor of the automorphism groups of any group of order $m$. As such, we extend the applicability of the program for computing these regular subgroups $N$ and concordantly the corresponding Hopf-Galois structures on separable extensions of degree $mp$.

A Theorem of Hou, Leung and Xiang generalised Kneser's addition Theorem to field extensions. This theorem was known to be valid only in separable extensions, and it was a conjecture of Hou that it should be valid for all extensions. We give an alternative proof of the theorem that also holds in the non-separable case, thus solving Hou's conjecture. This result is a consequence of a strengthening of Hou et al.'s theorem that is a transposition to extension fields of an addition theorem of Balandraud., 17 pages

Let k be a base field, K be a field containing k and L/K be a field extension of degree n. The essential dimension ed(L/K) over k is a numerical invariant measuring "the complexity" of L/K. Of particular interest is $\tau$(n) = max { ed(L/K) | L/K is a separable extension of degree n}, also known as the essential dimension of the symmetric group $S_n$. The exact value of $\tau$(n) is known only for n $\leq$ 7. In this paper we assume that k is a field of characteristic p > 0 and study the essential dimension of inseparable extensions L/K. Here the degree n = [L:K] is replaced by a pair (n, e) which accounts for the size of the separable and the purely inseparable parts of L/K respectively, and \tau(n) is replaced by $\tau$(n, e) = max { ed(L/K) | L/K is a field extension of type (n, e)}. The symmetric group $S_n$ is replaced by a certain group scheme $G_{n,e}$ over k. This group is neither finite nor smooth; nevertheless, computing its essential dimension turns out to be easier than computing the essential dimension of $S_n$. Our main result is a simple formula for \tau(n, e)., Comment: 18 pages

Let $A=\mathbb{F}_q[T]$ be the polynomial ring over $\mathbb{F}_q$, and $F$ be the field of fractions of $A$. Let $\phi$ be a Drinfeld $A$-module of rank $r\geq 2$ over $F$. For all but finitely many primes $\mathfrak{p}\lhd A$, one can reduce $\phi$ modulo $\mathfrak{p}$ to obtain a Drinfeld $A$-module $\phi\otimes\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p}$ of rank $r$ over $\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p}=A/\mathfrak{p}$. The endomorphism ring $\mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}=\mathrm{End}_{\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p}}(\phi\otimes\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p})$ is an order in an imaginary field extension $K$ of $F$ of degree $r$. Let $\mathcal{O}_\mathfrak{p}$ be the integral closure of $A$ in $K$, and let $\pi_\mathfrak{p}\in \mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}$ be the Frobenius endomorphism of $\phi\otimes\mathbb{F}_\mathfrak{p}$. Then we have the inclusion of orders $A[\pi_\mathfrak{p}]\subset \mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}\subset \mathcal{O}_\mathfrak{p}$ in $K$. We prove that if $\mathrm{End}_{F^\mathrm{alg}}(\phi)=A$, then for arbitrary non-zero ideals $\mathfrak{n}, \mathfrak{m}$ of $A$ there are infinitely many $\mathfrak{p}$ such that $\mathfrak{n}$ divides the index $\chi(\mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}/A[\pi_\mathfrak{p}])$ and $\mathfrak{m}$ divides the index $\chi(\mathcal{O}_\mathfrak{p}/\mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p})$. We show that the index $\chi(\mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}/A[\pi_\mathfrak{p}])$ is related to a reciprocity law for the extensions of $F$ arising from the division points of $\phi$. In the rank $r=2$ case we describe an algorithm for computing the orders $A[\pi_\mathfrak{p}]\subset \mathcal{E}_\mathfrak{p}\subset \mathcal{O}_\mathfrak{p}$, and give some computational data., Comment: Journal of Number Theory (David Goss Memorial Issue), to appear

Let $k$ be a field, $n \geqslant 5$ be an integer, $x_1, \dots, x_n$ be independent variables and $L_n = k(x_1, \dots, x_n)$. The symmetric group $S_n$ acts on $L_n$ by permuting the variables, and the projective linear group ${\rm PGL}_2$ acts by applying (the same) fractional linear transformation to each varaible. The fixed field $L_n^{{\rm PGL}_2}$ is called "the field of cross-ratios". Let $S \subset S_n$ be a subgroup. The Noether Problem asks whether the field extension $L_n^S/k$ is rational, and the Noether Problem for cross-ratios asks whether $K_n^S/k$ is rational. In an effort to relate these two problems, H. Tsunogai posed the following question: Is $L_n^S$ rational over $K_n^S$? He answered this question in several situations, in particular, in the case where $S = S_n$. In this paper we extend his results by recasting the problem in terms of Galois cohomology. Our main theorem asserts that the following conditions on a subgroup $S \subset S_n$ are equivalent: (a) $L_n^S$ is rational over $K_n^S$, (b) $L_n^S$ is unirational over $K_n^S$, (c) $S$ has an orbit of odd order in $\{1, \dots, n \}$., Comment: 7 pages

We show that each real-representable matroid is a minor of a complex-representable excluded minor for real-representability. More generally, for an infinite field $\mathbb{F}_1$ and a field extension $\mathbb{F}_2$, if $\mathbb{F}_1$-representability is not equivalent to $\mathbb{F}_2$-representability, then each $\mathbb{F}_1$-representable matroid is a minor of a $\mathbb{F}_2$-representable excluded minor for $\mathbb{F}_1$-representability., Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures. Submitted for publication in JCTb

Let $k$ be a field, with absolute Galois group $\Gamma$. Let $A/k$ be a finite \'etale group scheme of multiplicative type, i.e. a discrete $\Gamma$-module. Let $n \geq 2$ be an integer, and let $x \in H^n(k,A)$ be a cohomology class. We show that there exists a countable set $I$, and a familiy $(X_i)_{i \in I}$ of (smooth, geometrically integral) $k$-varieties, such that the following holds. For any field extension $l/k$, the restriction of $x$ vanishes in $H^n(l,A)$ if and only if (at least) one of the $X_i$'s has an $l$-point. We moreover show that the $X_i$'s can be made into an ind-variety. In the case $n=2$, we note that one variety is enough., Comment: 13 pages

We are interested in characterising pairs $S,T$ of $F$-linear subspaces in a field extension $L/F$ such that the linear span $ST$ of the set of products of elements of $S$ and of elements of $T$ has small dimension. Our central result is a linear analogue of Vosper's Theorem, which gives the structure of vector spaces $S, T$ in a prime extension $L$ of a finite field $F$ for which $\dim_FST =\dim_F S+\dim_F T-1,$ when $\dim_F S, \dim_F T\ge 2$ and $\dim_F ST\le [L:F]-2$., 33 pages

Let L/K be a separable field extension of degree 6. An 1867 theorem of P. Joubert asserts that if char(K) is different from 2 then L is generated over K by an element whose minimal polynomial is of the form t^6 + a t^4 + b t^2 + ct + d for some a, b, c, d in K. We show that this theorem fails in characteristic 2., 5 pages, new material added

Using dynamical methods we give a new proof of the theorem saying that if $A,B,X$ are rational functions of degree at least two such that $A\circ X=X\circ B$ and $\mathbb C(B,X)=\mathbb C(z)$, then the Galois closure of the field extension $\mathbb C(z)/\mathbb C(X)$ has genus zero or one., An extended version

Let X be an algebraic curve over Q and t a non-constant Q-rational function on X such that Q(t) is a proper subfield of Q(X). For every integer n pick a point P_n on X such that t(P_n)=n. We conjecture that, for large N, among the number fields Q(P_1), ..., Q(P_N) there are at least cN distinct. We prove this conjecture in the special case when t defines a geometrically abelian covering of the projective line, and the critical values of t are all rational. This implies, in particular, that our conjecture follows from a famous conjecture of Schinzel., Comment: Some typos are corrected. The article is now accepted in Periodica Math. Hungarica

In this note, we are interested in local-global principles for multinorm equations of the form $\prod_{i=1}^n N_{L_i /k}(z_i) = a$ where $k$ is a global field, $L_i/k$ are finite separable field extensions and $a \in k^*$. In particular, we prove a result relating weak approximation for this equation to weak approximation for some classical norm equation $N_{F/k}(w) = a$ where $F := \bigcap_{i=1}^n L_i$. It provides a proof of a "weak approximation" analogue of a recent conjecture by Pollio and Rapinchuk about multinorm principle. We also provide a counterexample to the original conjecture concerning Hasse principle., Comment: 14 pages, Final version

Given a triangulated category over a field $K$ and a field extension $L/K$, we investigate how one can construct a triangulated category over $L$. Our approach produces the derived category of the base change scheme $X_L$ if the category one starts with is the bounded derived category of a smooth projective variety $X$ over $K$ and the field extension is finite and Galois. We also investigate how the dimension of a triangulated category behaves under scalar extensions., Comment: 15 pages, comments welcome

Among abelian extensions of a congruence function field, an asymptotic relation of class number and genus is established. The proof is classical, employing well-known results from congruence function field theory., 11 pages

A loop is automorphic if all its inner mappings are automorphisms. We construct a large family of automorphic loops as follows. Let $R$ be a commutative ring, $V$ an $R$-module, $E=\mathrm{End}_R(V)$ the ring of $R$-endomorphisms of $V$, and $W$ a subgroup of $(E,+)$ such that $ab=ba$ for every $a$, $b\in W$ and $1+a$ is invertible for every $a\in W$. Then $Q_{R,V}(W)$ defined on $W\times V$ by $(a,u)(b,v) = (a+b,u(1+b)+v(1-a))$ is an automorphic loop. A special case occurs when $R=k

Consider a pair of ordinary elliptic curves E and E ′ defined over the same finite field F q . Suppose they have the same number of F q -rational points, i.e. | E ( F q ) | = | E ′ ( F q ) | . In this paper we characterise for which finite field extensions F q k , k ≥ 1 (if any) the corresponding groups of F q k -rational points are isomorphic, i.e. E ( F q k ) ≅ E ′ ( F q k ) .

We prove that if two division $p$-algebras of prime degree share an inseparable field extension of the center then they also share a cyclic separable one. We show that the converse is in general not true. We also point out that sharing all the inseparable field extensions of the center does not imply sharing all the cyclic separable ones.

In this paper, we formulate and prove linear analogues of results concerning matchings in groups. A matching in a group G is a bijection f between two finite subsets A,B of G with the property, motivated by old questions on symmetric tensors, that the product af(a)does not belong to A for all a \in A. Necessary and sufficient conditions on G, ensuring the existence of matchings under appropriate hypotheses, are known. Here we consider a similar question in a linear setting. Given a skew field extension K \subset L, where K commutative and central in L, we introduce analogous notions of matchings between finite-dimensional K-subspaces A,B of L, and obtain existence criteria similar to those in the group setting. Our tools mix additive number theory, combinatorics and algebra., Comment: The present version corrects a slight gap in the statement of Theorem 2.6 of the published version of this paper [Journal of Algebra 324 (2010) 3420-3430]

We study just infinite algebras which remain so upon extension of scalars by arbitrary field extensions. Such rings are called stably just infinite. We show that just infinite rings over algebraically closed fields are stably just infinite provided that the ring is either right noetherian or countably generated over a large field. We give examples to show that, over countable fields, a just infinite algebra which is either affine or non-noetherian need not remain just infinite under extension of scalars. We also give a concrete classification of PI stably just infinite rings and give two characterizations of non-PI stably just infinite rings in terms of Martindale's extended center., Comment: fixed typos

Let $E$ be a field of absolute Brauer dimension abrd$(E)$, and $F/E$ a transcendental finitely-generated extension. This paper shows that the Brauer dimension Brd$(F)$ is infinite, if abrd$(E) = \infty $. When the absolute Brauer $p$-dimension abrd$_{p}(E)$ is infinite, for some prime number $p$, it proves that for each pair $(n, m)$ of integers with $n \ge m > 0$, there is a central division $F$-algebra of Schur index $p ^{n}$ and exponent $p ^{m}$. Lower bounds on the Brauer $p$-dimension Brd$_{p}(F)$ are obtained in some important special cases where abrd$_{p}(E) < \infty $. These results solve negatively a problem posed by Auel et al. (Transf. Groups {\bf 16}: 219-264, 2011)., 19 pages, LaTeX; "coordinates" of three references updated; to appear in Manuscripta Mathematica. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1207.0965

The commuting graph of a semigroup is the set of non-central elements; the edges are defined as pairs $(u,v)$ satisfying $uv=vu$. We provide an example of a field $F$ and an integer $n$ such that the commuting graph of $\operatorname{Mat}_n(F)$ has maximal possible diameter, equal to six., Comment: 7 pages; a corrected version which is to appear in JCTA. The description of the field was incorrect in the first version

Let F be a field of characteristic p and let E / F be a purely inseparable field extension. We study the group H p n + 1 ( F ) : = coker ( ℘ : Ω F n → Ω F n / d Ω F n − 1 ) of classes of differential forms under the extension E / F and give a system of generators of H p n + 1 ( E / F ) . In the case p = 2 , we use this to determine the kernel W q ( E / F ) of the restriction map W q ( F ) → W q ( E ) between the groups of nonsingular quadratic forms over F and over E. We also deduce the corresponding result for the bilinear Witt kernel W ( E ′ / F ) of the restriction map W ( F ) → W ( E ′ ) , where E ′ / F denotes a modular purely inseparable field extension.

We prove the "divisible case" of the Milnor-Bloch-Kato conjecture (which is the first step of Voevodsky's proof of this conjecture for arbitrary prime l) in a rather clear and elementary way. Assuming this conjecture, we construct a 6-term exact sequence of Galois cohomology with cyclotomic coefficients for any finite extension of fields whose Galois group has an exact quadruple of permutational representations over it. Examples include cyclic groups, dihedral groups, the biquadratic group Z/2\times Z/2, and the symmetric group S_4. Several exact sequences conjectured by Bloch-Kato, Merkurjev-Tignol, and Kahn are proven in this way. In addition, we introduce a more sophisticated version of the classical argument known as "Bass-Tate lemma". Some results about annihilator ideals in Milnor rings are deduced as corollaries., LaTeX 2e, 17 pages. V5: Updated to the published version + small mistake corrected in Section 5. Submitted also to K-theory electronic preprint archives at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/K-theory/0589/

Let G be the separable Galois group of a finite field F of characteristic p, and X/F an imaginary hyperelliptic curve such that G acts transitively on its set W(X) of Weierstrass points. The existence of a G-invariant 2-torsion point on the Jacobian J(X) of X depends only on the parity of |W(X)|, but for large enough |F|, there exist two such curves X and X' with |W(X)|=|W(X')|, such that J(X) has (and J(X') does not have) a G-invariant 4-torsion point. The problem is equivalent to a study of the 2-,4- and 8-rank of the class number of the maximal order in the function field of such curves, and is investigated via the 2-primary class field tower. Contrary to the case of number fields, the ambiguous class depends on the discriminant, and a governing field for the 8-rank of such function fields is not known., 10 pages, LaTeX, uses `a4'

Let K be F_q((T)), or more generally any field of characteristic p equipped with a valuation having a finite residue field of q elements. Then a polynomial f(x) in K[x] having k+1 nonzero coefficients has at most q^k distinct zeros in K. We also obtain the best possible bound for the number of zeros of degree at most d over K., 6 pages, Latex 2e; to appear in Math. Res. Letters

Let $p$ be a prime integer and $F$ a field of characteristic 0. Let $X$ be the {\em norm variety} of a symbol in the Galois cohomology group $H^{n+1}(F,��_p^{\otimes n})$ (for some $n\geq1$), constructed in the proof of the Bloch-Kato conjecture. The main result of the paper affirms that the function field $F(X)$ has the following property: for any equidimensional variety $Y$, the change of field homomorphism $\CH(Y)\to\CH(Y_{F(X)})$ of Chow groups with coefficients in integers localized at $p$ is surjective in codimensions $< (\dim X)/(p-1)$. One of the main ingredients of the proof is a computation of Chow groups of a (generalized) Rost motive (a variant of the main result not relying on this is given in Appendix). Another important ingredient is {\em $A$-triviality} of $X$, the property saying that the degree homomorphism on $\CH_0(X_L)$ is injective for any field extension $L/F$ with $X(L)\ne\emptyset$. The proof involves the theory of rational correspondences reviewed in Appendix., 38 pages; final version, to appear in Ann. Sci. \'Ec. Norm. Sup\'er. (4)

In [BGLM] and [GLNP] it was conjectured that if $H$ is a simple Lie group of real rank at least 2, then the number of conjugacy classes of (arithmetic) lattices in $H$ of covolume at most $x$ is $x^{(\gamma(H)+o(1))\log x/\log\log x}$ where $\gamma(H)$ is an explicit constant computable from the (absolute) root system of $H$. In this paper we prove that this conjecture is false. In fact, we show that the growth is at rate $x^{c\log x}$. A crucial ingredient of the proof is the existence of towers of field extensions with bounded root discriminant which follows from the seminal work of Golod and Shafarevich on class field towers., Comment: 27 pages, a small change in title, final revision, to appear in Adv. Math

The present paper shows that if $q \in \mathbb P$ or $q = 0$, where $\mathbb P$ is the set of prime numbers, then there exist characteristic $q$ fields $E _{q,k}\colon \ k \in \mathbb N$, of Brauer dimension Brd$(E _{q,k}) = k$ and infinite absolute Brauer $p$-dimensions abrd$_{p}(E _{q,k})$, for all $p \in \mathbb P$ not dividing $q ^{2} - q$. This ensures that Brd$_{p}(F _{q,k}) = \infty $, $p \dagger q ^{2} - q$, for every finitely-generated transcendental extension $F _{q,k}/E _{q,k}$. We also prove that each sequence $a _{p}, b _{p}$, $p \in \mathbb P$, satisfying the conditions $a _{2} = b _{2}$ and $0 \le b _{p} \le a _{p} \le \infty $, equals the sequence abrd$_{p}(E), {\rm Brd}_{p}(E)$, $p \in \mathbb P$, for a field $E$ of characteristic zero., Comment: LaTeX, 14 pages: published in Journal of Algebra {\bf 428} (2015), 190-204; the abstract in the Metadata updated to fit the one of the paper

Suppose V is a surface over a number field k that admits two elliptic fibrations. We show that for each integer d there exists an explicitly computable closed subset Z of V, not equal to V, such that for each field extension K of k of degree at most d over the field of rational numbers, the set V(K) is Zariski dense as soon as it contains any point outside Z. We also present a version of this statement that is universal over certain twists of V and over all extensions of k. This generalizes a result of Swinnerton-Dyer, as well as previous work of Logan, McKinnon, and the author., Comment: 7 pages

Let $K \subset L$ be a commutative field extension. Given $K$-subspaces $A,B$ of $L$, we consider the subspace $$ spanned by the product set $AB=\{ab \mid a \in A, b \in B\}$. If $\dim_K A = r$ and $\dim_K B = s$, how small can the dimension of $$ be? In this paper we give a complete answer to this question in characteristic 0, and more generally for separable extensions. The optimal lower bound on $\dim_K < AB>$ turns out, in this case, to be provided by the numerical function $$ \kappa_{K,L}(r,s) = \min_{h} (\lceil r/h\rceil + \lceil s/h\rceil -1)h, $$ where $h$ runs over the set of $K$-dimensions of all finite-dimensional intermediate fields $K \subset H \subset L$. This bound is closely related to one appearing in additive number theory., Comment: Submitted in November 2007

Let K \subset L be a field extension. Given K-subspaces A,B of L, we study the subspace spanned by the product set AB = {ab | a \in A, b \in B}. We obtain some lower bounds on the dimension of this subspace and on dim B^n in terms of dim A, dim B and n. This is achieved by establishing linear versions of constructions and results in additive number theory mainly due to Kemperman and Olson., Comment: To appear in Linear and Multilinear Algebra

We obtain lower bounds for Selmer ranks of elliptic curves over dihedral extensions of number fields. Suppose $K/k$ is a quadratic extension of number fields, $E$ is an elliptic curve defined over $k$, and $p$ is an odd prime. Let $F$ denote the maximal abelian $p$-extension of $K$ that is unramified at all primes where $E$ has bad reduction and that is Galois over $k$ with dihedral Galois group (i.e., the generator $c$ of $Gal(K/k)$ acts on $Gal(F/K)$ by -1). We prove (under mild hypotheses on $p$) that if the rank of the pro-$p$ Selmer group $S_p(E/K)$ is odd, then the rank of $S_p(E/L)$ is at least $[L:K]$ for every finite extension $L$ of $K$ in $F$., Revised and improved. To appear in Annals of Mathematics

Let G be a linear algebraic group defined over a field k. We prove that, under mild assumptions on k and G, there exists a finite k-subgroup S of G such that the natural map H^1(K, S) -> H^1(K, G) is surjective for every field extension K/k. We give several applications of this result in the case where k an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and K/k is finitely generated. In particular, we prove that for every z in H^1(K, G) there exists an abelian field extension L/K such that z_L \in H^1(L, G) is represented by a G-torsor over a projective variety. From this we deduce that z_L has trivial point obstruction. We also show that a (strong) variant of the algebraic form of Hilbert's 13th problem implies that the maximal abelian extension of K has cohomological dimension =< 1. The last assertion, if true, would prove conjectures of Bogomolov and Koenigsmann, answer a question of Tits and establish an important case of Serre's Conjecture II for the group E_8., New material added on the no-name lemma in Section 4 and on Hilbert's 13th problem in Section 9. A mistake in the proof of Proposition 2.3 is corrected

We give an upper bound on the number of extensions of a fixed number field of prescribed degree and discriminant less than X; these bounds improve on work of Schmidt. We also prove various related results, such as lower bounds for the number of extensions and upper bounds for Galois extensions.

We find sharp upper and lower bounds for the degree of an algebraic number in terms of the $Q$-dimension of the space spanned by its conjugates. For all but seven nonnegative integers $n$ the largest degree of an algebraic number whose conjugates span a vector space of dimension $n$ is equal to $2^n n!$. The proof, which covers also the seven exceptional cases, uses a result of Feit on the maximal order of finite subgroups of $GL_n(Q)$; this result depends on the classification of finite simple groups. In particular, we construct an algebraic number of degree 1152 whose conjugates span a vector space of dimension only 4. We extend our results in two directions. We consider the problem when $Q$ is replaced by an arbitrary field, and prove some general results. In particular, we again obtain sharp bounds when the ground field is a finite field, or a cyclotomic extension of $Q$. Also, we look at a multiplicative version of the problem by considering the analogous rank problem for the multiplicative group generated by the conjugates of an algebraic number., 17 pages

Suppose E/F is a field extension. We ask whether or not there exists an element of E whose characteristic polynomial has one or more zero coefficients in specified positions. We show that the answer is frequently ``no''. We also prove similar results for division algebras and show that the universal division algebra of degree n does not have an element of trace 0 and norm 1., AMS LaTeX 1.1, 22 pages. Author-supplied dvi file available at http://ucs.orst.edu/~reichstz/pub.html

Let $G$ be an algebraic group, $X$ a generically free $G$-variety, and $K=k(X)^G$. A field extension $L$ of $K$ is called a splitting field of $X$ if the image of the class of $X$ under the natural map $H^1(K, G) \mapsto H^1(L, G)$ is trivial. If $L/K$ is a (finite) Galois extension then $\Gal(L/K)$ is called a splitting group of $X$. We prove a lower bound on the size of a splitting field of $X$ in terms of fixed points of nontoral abelian subgroups of $G$. A similar result holds for splitting groups. We give a number of applications, including a new construction of noncrossed product division algebras., Comment: In this revision we simplified the proof of Lemma 4.3. AMS LaTeX 1.1, 36 pages. Author-supplied dvi file available at http://ucs.orst.edu/~reichstz/pub.html