On a generalization of the Demǰanenko determinant

摘要

The Demǰanenko matrices are generalized with the averaged Bernoulli polynomials, and their determinants are computed by the Dedekind-Frobenius formula. This enables us to interpret geometrically the special values at negative integers of Dedekind zeta function of maximal real subfields as well as of imaginary subfields of cyclotomic fields. We utilize the structural properties of the group of reduced residue classes modm and those of (averaged) Bernoulli polynomials, thus appealing to the predominance of Galois theory over the fields themselves, which makes it possible to present very lucid reasoning of the whole picture.