An ABC construction of number fields
Author(s) -
David P. Roberts
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
crm proceedings and lecture notes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
eISSN - 2472-4890
pISSN - 1065-8580
DOI - 10.1090/crmp/036/19
Subject(s) - computer science
We describe a general three step method for constructing number fields with Lie-type Galois groups and discriminants factoring into powers of specified primes. The first step involves extremal solutions of the matrix equation ABC = I. The second step involves extremal polynomial solutions of the equation A(x) + B(x) + C(x) = 0. The third step involves integer solutions of the generalized Fermat equation axp + byq + czr = 0. We concentrate here on details associated to the third step and give examples where the field discriminants have the form ±2a3b.
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