Some Pólya Fields of Small Degrees

Speaker: Abbas Maarefparvar

Date: Tue, Nov 7, 2023

Location: PIMS, University of Lethbridge, Online

Conference: Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar

Subject: Mathematics, Number Theory

Class: Scientific

Abstract:

Historically, the notion of Pólya fields dates back to some works of George Pólya and Alexander Ostrowski, in 1919, on entire functions with integer values at integers; a number field K with ring of integers OK is called a Pólya field whenever the OK-module {fK[X]:f(OK)OK} admits an OK-basis with exactly one member from each degree. Pólya fields can be thought of as a generalization of number fields with class number one, and their classification of a specific degree has become recently an active research subject in algebraic number theory. In this talk, I will present some criteria for K to be a Pólya field. Then I will give some results concerning Pólya fields of degrees 2, 3, and 6.