Introduction

The fields part of OSCAR provides functionality for handling various kinds of fields:

• the field of rationals
• Number fields
• Generic fraction fields
• local fields (Padics and Qadics)
• finite fields
• Algebraic numbers
• Algebraic closure of finite prime fields

General textbooks offering details on theory and algorithms include:

• [Coh93]
• [Coh00]
• [LN97]
• [Mar18]
• [PZ97]

Contact

Please direct questions about this part of OSCAR to the following people:

• Claus Fieker,
• Tommy Hofmann,
• Max Horn.

You can ask questions in the OSCAR Slack.

Alternatively, you can raise an issue on github.