MA 5150: Algebraic Number Theory
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Class timings:
Tuesday: 11:00 am to 12noon
Wednesday: 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm
Friday: 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Examination and Grades:
The grades will be decided by the marks obtained in the surprise tests, mid-term, final, and also by the performance in the class.
Syllabus:
Integral ring extensions, Dedekind domains, discrete valuation rings, unique factorisation of ideals, ideal class groups, finiteness of class number, some class number computations, valuations and completions of number fields, Hensel's lemma, norm, trace, discriminant, different, Ramification theory of p-adic fields, Decomposition groups, Inertia groups, cyclotomic fields, Gauss sums, quadratic reciprocity, geometry of numbers, Ostrowski's theorem, Dirichlet's unit theorem.
Pre-requisite courses:
MA 4070, MA 5070.
References:
- Marcus, Daniel A. Number fields. Universitext. Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg, 1977.
- Janusz, Gerald J. Algebraic number fields. Second edition. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 7. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1996.
- Lang, Serge. Algebraic number theory. Second edition. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 110. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1994.
- JS Milne, Algebraic Number Theory (Available on his webpage)
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