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Quick Facts

Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Important dates

Course Commencement Date

Start Date : 20 Jan, 2025

End Date : 11 Apr, 2025

Enrollment Date

End Date : 27 Jan, 2025

Certificate Exam Date

Start Date : 26 Apr, 2025

Other

End Date : 14 Feb, 2025

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIISc Bangalore

The Syllabus

  • Study of number fields, definition of the ring of integers. Definition of norm and trace.

  • Definition of absolute and relative discriminant. Computation of discriminant. Computation of the ring of integers.

  • Definition and properties of Dedekind domains. Proof that the ring of integers is a Dedekind domain. Factorisation of extension of prime ideals in a finite extension of number fields.

  • Embeddings of a number field in complex numbers. A result from geometry of numbers. Finiteness of class groups.

  • Computation of class groups, including several examples. Applications to Diophantine equations of computations of class groups.

  • Dirichlet’s unit theorem.

  • Extension and norm of ideals in field extensions. Maps between class groups of extensions. Decomposition subgroups, inertia subgroups, Frobenius elements etc. Localisation, residue field.

  • Valuations in a number fields. Local fields. Hensel’s lemma and applications.

  • Field extensions of local fields, ramification, different, inertia subgroups etc.

  • Study of special number fields. Imaginary quadratic fields, real quadratic fields, cubic fields, cyclotomic fields.

  • Definition of ray class field as a generalisation of ideal class group. Some statements from class field theory without proofs.

  • Definition of zeta functions and L-functions. Statements of their analytic properties without proofs. Dirichlet Class number formula.

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