{ "id": "1403.0318", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-03-03T05:59:37.000Z", "updated": "2014-03-07T02:38:45.000Z", "title": "Noether's problems for groups of order 243", "authors": [ "Huah Chu", "Akinari Hoshi", "Shou-Jen Hu", "Ming-chang Kang" ], "comment": "arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1201.5555 by other authors", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "Let $k$ be any field, $G$ be a finite group. Let $G$ act on the rational function field $k(x_g:g\\in G)$ by $k$-automorphisms defined by $h\\cdot x_g=x_{hg}$ for any $g,h\\in G$. Denote by $k(G)=k(x_g:g\\in G)^G$ the fixed field. Noether's problem asks, under what situations, the fixed field $k(G)$ will be rational (= purely transcendental) over $k$. According to the data base of GAP there are $10$ isoclinism families for groups of order $243$. It is known that there are precisely $3$ groups $G$ of order $243$ (they consist of the isoclinism family $\\Phi_{10}$) such that the unramified Brauer group of $\\bm{C}(G)$ over $\\bm{C}$ is non-trivial. Thus $\\bm{C}(G)$ is not rational over $\\bm{C}$. We will prove that, if $\\zeta_9 \\in k$, then $k(G)$ is rational over $k$ for groups of order $243$ other than these $3$ groups, except possibly for groups belonging to the isoclinism family $\\Phi_7$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-03-07T02:38:45.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "13A50" ], "keywords": [ "isoclinism family", "fixed field", "rational function field", "noethers problem asks", "unramified brauer group" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1403.0318C" } } }