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Counting Hopf-Galois structures on cyclic field extensions of squarefree degree

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posted on 2025-07-31, 18:45 authored by AA Alabdali, NP Byott
We investigate Hopf-Galois structures on a cyclic field extension L/K of squarefree degree n. By a result of Greither and Pareigis, each such Hopf-Galois structure corresponds to a group of order n, whose isomorphism class we call the type of the Hopf-Galois structure. We show that every group of order n can occur, and we determine the number of Hopf-Galois structures of each type. We then express the total number of Hopf-Galois structures on L/K as a sum over factorisations of n into three parts. As examples, we give closed expressions for the number of Hopf-Galois structures on a cyclic extension whose degree is a product of three distinct primes. (There are several cases, depending on congruence conditions between the primes.) We also consider one case where the degree is a product of four primes.

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The first-named author acknowledges support from The Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq.

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This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record.

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Journal of Algebra

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Elsevier for Academic Press

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en

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Published online 21 September 2017

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  • Mathematics and Statistics

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