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xTable of Contents2.4.1 General Properties of Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652.4.2 Galois <strong>Theory</strong> of Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692.4.3 Polynomials over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712.5 Bounds for the <strong>Number</strong> of Solutions in Finite Fields . . . . . . . . 722.5.1 The Chevalley–Warning Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722.5.2 Gauss Sums for Finite Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742.5.3 Jacobi Sums for Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792.5.4 The Jacobi Sums J(χ 1 , χ 2 ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832.5.5 The <strong>Number</strong> of Solutions of Diagonal Equations . . . . . . 872.5.6 The Weil Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902.5.7 The Weil Conjectures (Deligne’s Theorem) . . . . . . . . . . 922.6 Exercises for Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933. Basic Algebraic <strong>Number</strong> <strong>Theory</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013.1 Field-Theoretic Algebraic <strong>Number</strong> <strong>Theory</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013.1.1 Galois <strong>Theory</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013.1.2 <strong>Number</strong> Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063.1.3 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083.1.4 Characteristic Polynomial, Norm, Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093.1.5 Noether’s Lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103.1.6 The Basic Theorem of Kummer <strong>Theory</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113.1.7 Examples of the Use of Kummer <strong>Theory</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143.1.8 Artin–Schreier <strong>Theory</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153.2 The Normal Basis Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173.2.1 Linear Independence and Hilbert 90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173.2.2 The Normal Basis Theorem in the Cyclic Case . . . . . . . 1193.2.3 Additive Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203.2.4 Algebraic Independence of Homomorphisms . . . . . . . . . 1213.2.5 The Normal Basis Theorem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233.3 Ring-Theoretic Algebraic <strong>Number</strong> <strong>Theory</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243.3.1 Gauss’s Lemma on Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243.3.2 Algebraic Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253.3.3 Ring of Integers and Discriminant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283.3.4 Ideals and Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303.3.5 Decomposition of Primes and Ramification . . . . . . . . . . 1323.3.6 Galois Properties of Prime Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . 1343.4 Quadratic Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363.4.1 Field-Theoretic and Basic Ring-Theoretic Properties . . 1363.4.2 Results and Conjectures on Class and Unit Groups . . . 1383.5 Cyclotomic Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403.5.1 Cyclotomic Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403.5.2 Field-Theoretic Properties of Q(ζ n ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443.5.3 Ring-Theoretic Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1463.5.4 The Totally Real Subfield of Q(ζ p k). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483.6 Stickelberger’s Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

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