Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
Let k be an algebraic number field and K be a finite extension of k. Recently, T. Ono defined positive rational numbers E(K/k) and E′(K/k) for K/k. In [7], he investigated some relations between E(K/k) and other cohomological invariants for K/k. He obtained a formula when K is a normal extension of k. In our paper [3], we obtained a similar formula for E′(K/k) in the case of normal extensions K/k. Both proofs essentially use Ono’s results on the Tamagawa number of algebraic tori, on which the formulae themselves do not depend. Hence, in [8], T. Ono posed a problem to give direct proofs of these formulae.