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The Arithmetic of Quaternion Algebra

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66 CHAPTER 3. QUATERNION ALGEBRA OVER A GLOBAL FIELD<br />

<strong>The</strong>refore, O is an order.It is maximal because the reduced discriminant |det(eiej)| 1<br />

2<br />

<strong>of</strong> the order Z[e1, ..., e4] = Z[1, i, j, i] is 13 · 8hence the reduced discriminant <strong>of</strong><br />

O which is deduced from the above order by a base change <strong>of</strong> determinant 1/4<br />

equals 13 · 8/4 = 26. We shall see other examples in exercise 5.1,5.2,5.6.<br />

<strong>The</strong> properties <strong>of</strong> normal ideals.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se are such ideals whose left and right orders are maximal. <strong>The</strong> local-global<br />

correspondence in Lattices, and the the properties mentioned in chapter II show<br />

that these ideals are locally principal. We leave as an exercise the following<br />

properties ( utilize the definitions <strong>of</strong> chapter I,8.5 and the properties <strong>of</strong> normal<br />

ideals <strong>of</strong> a quaternion algebra over a local field as we saw in chapter II,§1,2):<br />

(a) A ideal to the left <strong>of</strong> a maximal order has a maximal right order.<br />

(b) If the right order <strong>of</strong> ideal I is equal to the left order <strong>of</strong> ideal J, then the<br />

product IJ is an ideal and n(IJ) = n(I)n(J). Its left order equals that <strong>of</strong> I,<br />

and its right order equals that <strong>of</strong> J.<br />

(c) <strong>The</strong> two-sided ideals ”commute” with the ideals in a sense <strong>of</strong> CI = IC ′ ,<br />

where C is a two-sided ideal <strong>of</strong> the left order <strong>of</strong> I and C ′ is the unique two-sided<br />

ideal <strong>of</strong> the right order <strong>of</strong> I such that n(C) = n(C ′ ).<br />

(d)If I is an integral ideal <strong>of</strong> reduced norm AB, where A and B are integral<br />

ideals <strong>of</strong> R, then I can be factorized<br />

into a product <strong>of</strong> two integral ideals <strong>of</strong> reduced norm A and B.<br />

(e) <strong>The</strong> two-sided ideals <strong>of</strong> a maximal order O constitute a commutative group<br />

generated by the ideals <strong>of</strong> R and the ideals <strong>of</strong> reduced norm P , where P runs<br />

through the prime ideals <strong>of</strong> R which are ramified in H. We shall utilize the fact<br />

that the single two-sided ideal <strong>of</strong> a maximal order Op <strong>of</strong> Hp <strong>of</strong> norm Rp is Op.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se properties are true too for the the locally principal ideals <strong>of</strong> Eichler orders<br />

<strong>of</strong> a square-free level N.<br />

B:<strong>The</strong> class number <strong>of</strong> ideals and the type number <strong>of</strong> orders .<br />

Unfortunately, the property for an ideal being principal is not a local property.<br />

It is just one <strong>of</strong> the reasons that we work very <strong>of</strong>ten on adeles instead <strong>of</strong> working<br />

globally. It means that we <strong>of</strong>ten like to replace a lattice Y by the set (Yp) <strong>of</strong> its<br />

localizations (5.1). We denote<br />

YA = �<br />

Yv, with Yv = Hv if v ∈ S.<br />

v∈V<br />

From now on the orders in consideration will always be Eichler orders, and the<br />

ideals will be principal locally. Fix an Eichler order O <strong>of</strong> level N. <strong>The</strong> adele<br />

object associated with it is denoted by OA, the units <strong>of</strong> OA by O ×<br />

A , the normalizer<br />

<strong>of</strong> OA in HA by N(OA).<br />

<strong>The</strong> global-adele dictionary.<br />

Ideals: <strong>The</strong> left ideals <strong>of</strong> O correspond bijectively with the set O ×<br />

A /H× A ; the<br />

ideal I is associated with (xv) ∈ H ×<br />

A such that Ip = Opxp if p /∈ S.<br />

Two-sided ideals: correspond bijectively with O ×<br />

A \N(OA).<br />

Eichler orders <strong>of</strong> level N: correspond bijectively with N(OA)\H ×<br />

A ; the order O′<br />

is associated with (xv) ∈ H ×<br />

A such that O′ p = x−1 p Opxp.<br />

Classes <strong>of</strong> ideals: <strong>The</strong> classes <strong>of</strong> left ideals <strong>of</strong> O correspond bijectively with<br />

O ×<br />

A \H× A /H×<br />

×<br />

K . <strong>The</strong> classes <strong>of</strong> two-sided ideals correspond bijectively with O×<br />

A \N(OA)/(H<br />

N(OA)), the types <strong>of</strong> Eichler order <strong>of</strong> level N correspond bijectively with H ×<br />

K \H× A /N(OA).<br />

<strong>The</strong>orem 3.5.4. <strong>The</strong> class number <strong>of</strong> the ideals to the left <strong>of</strong> O is finite.<br />

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