Galois Group of the Maximal Abelian Extension over an Algebraic Number Field

Abstract

The aim of the present work is to determine the Galois group of the maximal abelian extension ΩA over an algebraic number field Ω of finite degree, which we fix once for all.Let Z be a continuous character of the Galois group of ΩA/Ω. Then, by class field theory, the character Z is also regarded as a character of the idele group of Ω. We call such Z character of Ω. For our purpose, it suffices to determine the group Xl of the characters of Ω whose orders are powers of a prime number l.