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Author(s): Ken-Ichi Yoshino
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 2589-2591.
MSC (1991): Primary 11R29, 11R18; Secondary 11R27
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Abstract: We give a simple criterion for the parity of the class number of the cyclotomic field.

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Ken-Ichi Yoshino
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-02, Japan
Email: yoshino@kanazawa-med.ac.jp

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04712-1
PII: S 0002-9939(98)04712-1
Received by editor(s): February 12, 1997
Communicated by: David E. Rohrlich
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society

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