Class number parity for cyclotomic fields
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Abstract:
We give a simple criterion for the parity of the class number of the cyclotomic field.References
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Additional Information
- Ken-Ichi Yoshino
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-02, Japan
- Email: yoshino@kanazawa-med.ac.jp
- Received by editor(s): February 12, 1997
- Communicated by: David E. Rohrlich
- © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 2589-2591
- MSC (1991): Primary 11R29, 11R18; Secondary 11R27
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04712-1
- MathSciNet review: 1476402