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Tame and wild kernels of quadratic imaginary number fields
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by Jerzy Browkin and Herbert Gangl PDF
Math. Comp. 68 (1999), 291-305 Request permission

Abstract:

For all quadratic imaginary number fields $F$ of discriminant $d>-5000,$ we give the conjectural value of the order of Milnor’s group (the tame kernel) $K_{2}O_{F},$ where $O_{F}$ is the ring of integers of $F.$ Assuming that the order is correct, we determine the structure of the group $K_{2}O_{F}$ and of its subgroup $W_{F}$ (the wild kernel). It turns out that the odd part of the tame kernel is cyclic (with one exception, $d=-3387$).
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Additional Information
  • Jerzy Browkin
  • Affiliation: Jerzy Browkin, Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, ul. Banacha 2, PL-02-097 Warszawa, Poland
  • Email: bro@mimuw.edu.pl
  • Herbert Gangl
  • Affiliation: Herbert Gangl, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Ellernstr. 29, D-45326 Essen, Germany
  • Email: herbert@mpim-bonn.mpg.de
  • Received by editor(s): January 3, 1997
  • Additional Notes: The second author was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
  • © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 68 (1999), 291-305
  • MSC (1991): Primary 11R11; Secondary 11R70, 11Y40, 19C99, 19F27
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-99-01000-5
  • MathSciNet review: 1604336