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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 13 (1990), Issue 4, Pages 811-812
doi:10.1155/S0161171290001120
Research notes
Norms in finite galois extensions of the rationals
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Bunsenstrasse 3-5, Göttingen D-3400, Germany
Received 22 August 1989; Revised 12 December 1989
Copyright © 1990 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We show that under certain conditions a rational number is a norm in a given finite Galois extension of the rationals if and only if this number is a local norm at a certain finite number of places in a certain finite abelian extension of the rationals.