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The Distribution Of The Irreducibles In An Algebraic Number Field, Rebecca Rozario
The Distribution Of The Irreducibles In An Algebraic Number Field, Rebecca Rozario
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The objective of this thesis is to study the distribution of the number of principal ideals generated by an irreducible element in an algebraic number field, namely in the non-unique factorization ring of integers of such a field. In particular we are investigating the size of M(x), defined as M ( x ) =∑ (α) α irred.|N (α)|≤≠ 1, where x is any positive real number and N (α) is the norm of α. We finally obtain asymptotic results for hl(x).