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Indivisibility of Class Numbers of Real Quadratic Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2007

Ken Ono
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Penn. State University, University Park, PA 16802 U.S.A.; e-mail: ono@mah.psu.edu
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Abstract

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Let D denote the fundamental discriminant of a real quadratic field, and let h(D) denote its associated class number. If p is prime, then the ’Cohen and Lenstra Heuristics‘ give a probability that p[nmid]h(D). If p>3 is prime, then subject to a mild condition, we show that $\# \{0<D<X|p\nmid h(D)\}\gg_p \frac{\sqrt{X}}{\log X}.$ This condition holds for each 3<p<5000.

Type
Research Article
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© 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers