ON THE DENSITY OF DISCRIMINANTS OF ABELIAN EXTENSIONS OF A NUMBER FIELD

Abstract

Let G = Cℓ × Cℓ denote the product of two cyclic groups of prime order ℓ, and let k be an algebraic number field. Let N(k, G, m) denote the number of abelian extensions K of k with Galois group G(K/k) isomorphic to G, and the relative discriminant 𝒟(K/k) of norm equal to m. In this paper, we derive an asymptotic formula for ∑m≤XN(k, G; m). This extends the result previously obtained by Datskovsky and Mammo.