Multiplicative Galois Module Structure

Download or read book Multiplicative Galois Module Structure written by Alfred Weiss and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is the result of a short course on the Galois structure of S -units that was given at The Fields Institute in the autumn of 1993. Offering a new angle on an old problem, the main theme is that this structure should be determined by class field theory, in its cohomological form, and by the behaviour of Artin L -functions at s = 0. A proof of this - or even a precise formulation - is still far away, but the available evidence all points in this direction. The work brings together the current evidence that the Galois structure of S -units can be described. This is intended for graduate students and research mathematicians, specifically algebraic number theorists.