Date of Award

1-1-2015

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Content Description

1 online resource (iv, 44 pages) : illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Anupam Srivastav

Committee Members

Boris Goldfarb, Marco Varisco

Keywords

normal integral basis, quadratic imaginary number fields, realisable class, realisable Swan classes, Swan group, Abelian groups, Modules (Algebra), Quadratic fields, Rings (Algebra)

Subject Categories

Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Abstract

We show that every quadratic imaginary extension of the field of rationals has a biquadratic extension without a normal integral basis.

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