Factorization of the Dedekind zeta function of an abelian number field
The Dedekind zeta function of an abelian number fieldfactors as a product of Dirichlet L-functions as follows. Let be an abelian number field, i.e. is Galois and is abelian. Then, by the Kronecker-Weber theorem,there is an integer (which we choose to be minimal) such that where is a primitive throot of unity
. Let and let be aDirichlet character
. Then the kernel of determines a fixedfield of . Further, for any field as before,there exists a group of Dirichlet characters of such that is equal to the intersection of the fixed fields by thekernels of all . The order of is and.
Theorem ([1], Thm. 4.3).
Let be an abelian number field and let bethe associated group of Dirichlet characters. The Dedekind zetafunction of factors as follows:
Notice that for the trivial character one has, the Riemann zeta function, which has asimple pole
at with residue
. Thus, for an arbitraryabelian number field :
where the last product is taken over allnon-trivial characters .
References
- 1 L. C. Washington, Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields
, Springer-Verlag, New York.