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Mathematics of Computation

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1960 (published as Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation 1943-1959), Mathematics of Computation is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in computational mathematics.

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An effective number geometric method of computing the fundamental units of an algebraic number field
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by Michael Pohst and Hans Zassenhaus PDF
Math. Comp. 31 (1977), 754-770 Request permission

Abstract:

The Minkowski method of unit search is applied to particular types of parallelotopes permitting to discover algebraic integers of bounded norm in a given algebraic number field of degree n at will by solving successively $2n$ linear inequalities for one unknown each. Application is made to the unit search for all totally real number fields of minimal discriminant for $n \leqslant 7$.
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Additional Information
  • © Copyright 1977 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 31 (1977), 754-770
  • MSC: Primary 12A45
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1977-0498486-5
  • MathSciNet review: 0498486