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Unit groups of infinite abelian extensions


Author: Warren May
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (1970), 680-683
MSC: Primary 10.65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1970-0258786-6
MathSciNet review: 0258786
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Abstract: Let $F$ be a finite extension field of the rational numbers, $Q$, and let $K$ be an infinite abelian extension of $F$. Let $S$ be a finite set of prime divisors of $Q$ including the Archimedean one. An $S$-unit of $K$ is a field element which is a local unit at all prime divisors of $F$ which do not restrict on $Q$ to a member of $S$. It is shown that the group of $S$-units of $K$ is the direct product of the group of roots of unity of $K$ with a free abelian group.


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Keywords: Infinite field extension, abelian field extension cyclotomic field extension, units
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