Hilbert’s twelfth problem

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Hilbert’s twelfth problem is one of David Hilbert’s famous list of 23 problems, asking for a general explicit class field theory that would generate all abelian extensions of a given number field using special values of analytic functions.

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Artin reciprocity law 1
Hilbert’s twelfth problem canonical 1
Kronecker Jugendtraum 1

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instanceOf Hilbert problem
mathematical problem
open problem in number theory
aimsToDescribe abelian extensions via transcendental analytic data
maximal abelian extension of a number field
asksFor explicit construction of all abelian extensions of a given number field
generation of abelian extensions by special values of analytic functions
concerns abelian extensions of number fields
explicit class field theory
special values of L-functions
special values of analytic functions
special values of complex analytic functions
special values of elliptic functions
special values of modular functions
field algebraic number theory
analytic number theory
class field theory
number theory
generalizes Kronecker’s Jugendtraum
influenced development of modern class field theory
research on special values of L-functions
involves CM fields
Galois groups of abelian extensions
Hecke characters
Kronecker–Weber theorem as a special case
class field theory reciprocity maps
idele class characters
imaginary quadratic fields
theory of complex multiplication
totally real fields
languageOfOriginalFormulation German
numberInHilbertList 12
partiallySolvedFor CM fields
some abelian extensions of totally real fields
partOf Hilbert’s list of 23 problems
linked to: Hilbert problems
presentedAt International Congress of Mathematicians 1900 in Paris
proposedBy David Hilbert
relatedTo Brumer–Stark conjecture
linked to: Stark conjectures

Iwasawa theory
Langlands program
Shimura varieties
Stark conjectures
automorphic forms
modular forms
solvedFor imaginary quadratic fields via elliptic functions and modular functions
rational number field via roots of unity
status unsolved in full generality
yearProposed 1900

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Hilbert problems hasPart Hilbert’s twelfth problem
Kronecker–Weber theorem relatedTo Kronecker Jugendtraum
linked to: Hilbert’s twelfth problem
Kronecker–Weber theorem relatedTo Artin reciprocity law
linked to: Hilbert’s twelfth problem
Hilbert’s twelfth problem generalizes Kronecker’s Jugendtraum
linked to: Hilbert’s twelfth problem