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Elliptic Units and Class Fields of Global Function Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sunghan Bae
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, KAIST, Taejon, 305-701, Korea
Pyung-Lyun Kang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, KAIST, Taejon, 305-701, Korea
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Abstract

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Elliptic units of global function fields were first studied by D. Hayes in the case that deg ∞ is assumed to be 1, and he obtained some class number formulas using elliptic units. We generalize Hayes’ results to the case that deg ∞ is arbitrary.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1997

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