Timeline for How Dirichlet proved Dirichlet's unit theorem for general number fields?
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 20:39 | history | edited | KConrad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2021 at 4:29 | vote | accept | J.Li | ||
| Mar 22, 2021 at 3:05 | comment | added | GH from MO | @FranzLemmermeyer: Thanks for the clarification. Also, I misspelled Dedekind in the rush (whose name I am very familiar with). | |
| Mar 21, 2021 at 20:17 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | @GH: This is of course due to Dedekind, who rewrote Dirichlet's proofs for the maximal order. As a matter of fact, the unit theorem for orders ${\mathbb Z}[\alpha]$ implies and follows from the unit theorem for the maximal order. | |
| Mar 21, 2021 at 16:20 | comment | added | GH from MO | Last night I looked into Dirichlet's Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie, with Dedkind's supplement. There the full ring of integers is considered, given in the form of $\mathfrak{o}=\mathbb{Z}\omega_1+\dotsb+\mathbb{Z}\omega_n$. | |
| Mar 21, 2021 at 8:11 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2021 at 8:06 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2021 at 7:56 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |