陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「254A, Supplement 1: A little bit of algebraic number theory (optional)」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Analytic number theory is only one of many different approaches to number theory. Another important branch of the subject is algebraic number theory , which studies algebraic structures (e.g. groups, rings, and fields) of number-theoretic interest. With this perspective, the classical field of rationals , and the classical ring of integers , are placed inside the much larger field of algebraic numbers , and the much larger ring of algebraic integers , respectively. Recall tha

Exercise 1 Show that the field of algebraic numbers is indeed a field , and that the ring of algebraic integers is indeed a ring , and is in fact an integral domain . Also, show that , that is to say the ordinary integers are precisely the algebraic integers that are also rational. Because of this, 下面会 sometimes refer to elements of as rational integers .

已知结果和反例

In practice, the field is too big to conveniently work with directly, having infinite dimension (as a vector space) over . Thus, algebraic number theory generally restricts attention to intermediate fields between and , which are of finite dimension over ; that is to say, finite degree extensions of . Such fields are known as algebraic number fields , or number fields for short. Apart from itself, the simplest examples of such number fields are the quadratic fields , which ha

Exercise 2 Show that if is a rational number that is not a perfect square, then the field generated by and either of the square roots of is a quadratic field. Conversely, show that all quadratic fields arise in this fashion. ( Hint: show that every element of a quadratic field is a root of a quadratic polynomial over the rationals.)

证明或构造的主线

The ring of algebraic integers is similarly too large to conveniently work with directly, so in algebraic number theory one usually works with the rings of algebraic integers inside a given number field . One can (and does) study this situation in great generality, but for the purposes of this post we shall restrict attention to a simple but illustrative special case, namely the quadratic fields with a certain type of negative discriminant. (The positive discriminant case wil

Exercise 3 Let be a square-free natural number with or . Show that the ring of algebraic integers in is given by

阅读时建议盯住的点

If instead is square-free with , show that the ring is instead given by

Remark 4 In the case , it may naively appear more natural to work with the ring , which is an index two subring of . However, because this ring only captures some of the algebraic integers in rather than all of them, the algebraic properties of these rings are somewhat worse than those of (in particular, they generally fail to be Dedekind domains ) and so are not convenient to work with in algebraic number theory.

值得单独记下的条目

• (i) For any natural number , the number of Gaussian integers with norm is equal to . Equivalently, the number of solutions to the equation with is . (Here, as in the previous post, the symbol denotes Dirichlet convolution .)
• (ii) For any natural number , the number of Gaussian integers that divide (thus for some ) is .
• If is a quadratic residue modulo , then is the product of two prime ideals of norm .
• is a quadratic non-residue modulo , then is a prime ideal of norm .
• (i) Show that for any rational integer with , that the only solutions to the equation are .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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