principalization

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English

Noun

principalization (countable and uncountable, plural principalizations)

  1. A situation when, given an extension of algebraic number fields, some ideal (or more generally fractional ideal) of the ring of integers of the smaller field isn't principal but its extension to the ring of integers of the larger field is.