Special units in real cyclic sextic fields
Author:
Marie-Nicole Gras
Journal:
Math. Comp. 48 (1987), 179-182
MSC:
Primary 11R27; Secondary 11R20
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1987-0866107-1
MathSciNet review:
866107
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Abstract: We study the real cyclic sextic fields generated by a root w of ,
. We show that, when
is square-free (except for powers of 2 and 3), and
,
,
, then w is a generator of the module of relative units. The details of the proofs are given in [3].
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1987-0866107-1
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