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

General textbooks offering details on theory and algorithms include:

• Henri Cohen (1993)
• Henri Cohen (2000)
• Rudolf Lidl, Harald Niederreiter (1997)
• Daniel A. Marcus (2018)
• M. Pohst, H. Zassenhaus (1997)

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.