On mod 3 triple Milnor invariants and triple cubic residue symbols in the Eisenstein number field

Abstract

We introduce mod 3 triple Milnor invariants and triple cubic residue symbols for certain primes of the Eisenstein number field $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-3})$, following the analogies between knots and primes. Our triple symbol generalizes both the cubic residue symbol and Rédei's triple symbol, and describes the decomposition law of a prime in a mod 3 Heisenberg extension of degree 27 over $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-3})$ with restricted ramification, which we construct concretely in the form similar to Rédei's dihedral extension over $\mathbb{Q}$. We also give a cohomological interpretation of our symbols by triple Massey products in Galois cohomology.

42 pages. The previous version entitled "Arithmetic Milnor invariants and multiple power residue symbols in number fields" by F. Amano and M. Morishita contained some mistakes concerning Theorem 2.8. This is a new version for the Eisenstein number field, which revises largely the previous one, with the collaboration of Y. Mizusawa. To appear in Research in Number Theory