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The Bass-Milnor-Serre theorem for nonstandard models in Peano arithmetic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Anatole Khelif
Anatole Khelif*
Affiliation:
Equipe de Logique Mathématique, Université Paris-VII, 75251 Paris, France, E-mail: khelif@logique.jussieu.fr
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The aim of this paper is to extend the Bass-Milnor-Serre theorem to the nonstandard rings associated with nonstandard models of Peano arithmetic, in brief to Peano rings.

First, we recall the classical setting. Let k be an algebraïc number field, and let θ be its ring of integers. Let n be an integer ≥ 3, and let G be the group Sln(θ) of (n, n) matrices of determinant 1 with coefficients in θ.

The profinite topology in G is the topology having as fundamental system of open subgroups the subgroups of finite index.

Congruence subgroups of finite index of G are the kernels of the maps Sln(θ) → Sln(θ/I) for which all ideals I of θ are of finite index. By taking these subgroups as a fundamental system of open subgroups, one obtains the congruence topology on G. Every open set for this topology is open in the profinite topology.

We denote by Ḡ (resp., Ĝ) the completion of G for the congruence (resp., profinite) topology.

The Bass-Milnor-Serre theorem [1] consists of the two following statements:

(A) If k admits a real embedding, then we have an exact sequence

That is, Ĝ and Ḡ are isomorphic.

(B) If k is totally imaginary, then one has an exact sequence

where μ(k)is the group of the roots of unity of k.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 1451 - 1458
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1993

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