Recall Lemma 5 in last section, in a Dedekind Domain , we have
Let be the set of ideals. We already know that, it is a partial order set under , and it is a monoid under .
Lemma 5 tells us that the order and the operation are congruent.
Indeed, let be the set of prime ideals in , then we have the embedding of poset.
Here has the product order.
Ideal Norm
Definition. Let be a ring and be an ideal, we define to be the absolute norm of the ideal.
Example. For , then .
In general, for such that , then since
For any . Hence we have
Proposition. Let be a Dedekind Domain, then for any ideal .
Proof. If , then
Now let us deal with finite case.
Consider the following short exact sequence for finite set
Then we have . Since .
Then consider
Notice that since .
Hence we could view as a vector space. If there is a subspace such that
Then consider , where . We know that is an submodule of , hence an ideal. But there is no ideal between . Hence . Therefore, we have , hence .
This implies that
By induction we have
Then for any ideal , we have
even if they are not coprime.
Hence we could extend the norm map to a group homomorphism from ideal group of to by the universal property of Grothendieck Group. If the ideal norm is finite.
Ideal Norm for
as lattice in via Minkowski embedding
The ideal norm for is always finite, and it has some connections between ideal norm and .
Lemma. Let be an ideal, then is a free -module with .
Proof. We already know that , hence is a free module with . Now we only need to prove that
the rank is . Let be a basis of and . Let . Then take , which is product of some conjugate of , hence . Hence . Then we have
Definition. Minkowski embedding
Let be a number field, with . Where is the number of real embedding and is the number of pair of complex embedding. Let .
Take the primitive element such that , we have .
Which is
We call this map Minkowski embedding.
We define the Inner product on by
Where .
Then we have .
Definition. Ideal norm in ,
Let be an ideal. Let be the basis of and be the basis of .
Then there exists a matrix such that .
This is invariant under the change of basis since we have , and .
We claim that .
By the structure theorem of finitely generated module over PID, we could find a basis of such that .
Hence we have a linear map:
Easy to see that , Also we have
Thus
Then you can see the geometric meaning of the ideal norm.
Corollary. The ideal norm for is finite.
Corollary. is Dedekind Domain.
Proof. We already know that is integrally closed and Noetherian. Now we need to prove the Krull dimension is 1.
Since is finite and every finite integral domain is field.
Remark. Indeed, let be an Artinian integral domain, then is a field. Let , and consider the following descending chain
Assume this chain stable at , then , there exists a such that .
Let be an ideal, and be a basis of .
We have
But we know that . Hence .
Corollary. Ideal norm and norm of element.
Let , then we claim that .
Proof. Let be the basis of , then is the basis of . Then we have
But .
Application. Consider , how do you compute ? Well, we have . But the only abelian group with order is , and there is only one ring structure on .
Theorem. Let be a nonzero ideal in .
If is prime, then is prime.. If is a prime ideal, then for some and for some .
Proof. We prove (3) first. This follows directly from the definition of . We have , where is the universal map from to . Since is prime, hence a maximal ideal in , we have that is a finite field, hence . Thus . To see that , we have the following maps of -module homomorphism.
Now let us prove . We prove sth more general first.
Let be an ideal and view as an -module, then we cliam that . It follows from
Now since , Lagrange’s theorem tells us that .
For , let us prove something much more general.
Definition. Let be a category and be a morphism that is not an isomorphism. We say is irreducible if
Theorem. Let be a functor that reflects isomorphisms, i.e., is invertible implies is invertible, then reflects irreducibility, i.e., is irreducible implies is irreducible.
Proof. Let be irreducible, and assume that is not irreducible, so such that both and are not invertible.Then . But since reflects isomorphisms and every functor preserves isomorphisms, hence and are not isomorphisms, which contradicts the fact that is irreducible.
To apply this theorem to (1), we need to associate a monoid with a category, hence we define the following functor.
Definition. Let be a functor from the category of monoids to the category of small categories as follows:
For a monoid , define to be the category with , . The composition of morphisms is given by the binary operation in the monoid. It is easy to see that a monoid homomorphism will induce a functor automatically.
Proof of (1)Now let be the monoid of ideals, consider , we know that , and the unique isomorphism in is 1. Hence we have that reflects isomorphisms, thus reflects irreducibility. Thus if is prime, then is prime.
Remark. Another example of a functor that reflects isomorphisms and hence reflects irreducibility is given by the degree of field extension.Here we define
by . It is easy to see that . Hence if we have , then there is no nontrivial field extension between and .
Remark. You should view as the syntax category of action, and category of -, i.e. as the category of semantics of in .
Euler Function on Dedekind Domain
Let be the ideal monoid of a Dedekind Domain . We define the Euler function on by
Obviously when , we have by CRT and unit functor is right adjoint of group algebra.
Now let us study the value of .
Lemma..
Proof. Since is maximal ideal, hence is local ring. .
We have the following short exact sequence.
Arithmetic function ring on the ideal monoid.
Indeed, we should study Arithmetic function ring on the ideal monoid for a Dedekind Domain.
I think the theory will look very similar to the traditional case (click here). But I do not have time to write it.