Class numbers of cyclotomic function fields

Let be a prime power and let be the finite field with elements. For each polynomial in , one could use the Carlitz module to construct an abelian extension of , called a Carlitz cyclotomic extension. Carlitz cyclotomic extensions play a fundamental role in the study of abelian extensions of , similar to the role played by cyclotomic number fields for abelian extensions of . We are interested in the tower of Carlitz cyclotomic extensions corresponding to the powers of a fixed irreducible polynomial in . Two types of properties are obtained for the -parts of the class numbers of the fields in this tower, for a fixed prime number . One gives congruence relations between the -parts of these class numbers. The other gives lower bound for the -parts of these class numbers.

     

Class numbers of real cyclotomic fields of prime conductor

The class numbers of the real cyclotomic fields are notoriously hard to compute. Indeed, the number is not known for a single prime . In this paper we present a table of the orders of certain subgroups of the class groups of the real cyclotomic fields for the primes . It is quite likely that these subgroups are in fact equal to the class groups themselves, but there is at present no hope of proving this rigorously. In the last section of the paper we argue --on the basis of the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics-- that the probability that our table is actually a table of class numbers , is at least .

     

On the class numbers of cyclotomic fields

Let g_n denote the first factor of the class number of the nth cyclotomic field. It is proved that if n runs through a sequence of prime powers p^r tending to infinity, then

$\text{log}\text{g}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{～}\text{1}\text{4}\text{[1 ? (}\text{1}\text{p}\text{)]n}\text{log}\text{n}$

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On the class numbers of cyclotomic fields

The finiteness of the number of cyclotomic fields whose relative class numbers have bounded odd parts will be verified and then all the cyclotomic fields with relative class numbers non-trivial 2-powers will be determined.This research was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Science (No. 01740051), Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan     

Class number parity for cyclotomic fields

We give a simple criterion for the parity of the class number of the cyclotomic field.

     

Class numbers of complex quadratic fields

Congruence conditions on the class numbers of complex quadratic fields have recently been studied by various investigators, including Barrucand and Cohn, Hasse, and the author. In this paper, we study the class number of Q(√ ? pq), where p ≡ q (mod 4) are distinct primes.     

Class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields

The classical class number problem of Gauss asks for a classification of all imaginary quadratic fields with a given class number . The first complete results were for by Heegner, Baker, and Stark. After the work of Goldfeld and Gross-Zagier, the task was a finite decision problem for any . Indeed, after Oesterlé handled , in 1985 Serre wrote, ``No doubt the same method will work for other small class numbers, up to 100, say.' However, more than ten years later, after doing , Wagner remarked that the case seemed impregnable. We complete the classification for all , an improvement of four powers of 2 (arguably the most difficult case) over the previous best results. The main theoretical technique is a modification of the Goldfeld-Oesterlé work, which used an elliptic curve -function with an order 3 zero at the central critical point, to instead consider Dirichlet -functions with low-height zeros near the real line (though the former is still required in our proof). This is numerically much superior to the previous method, which relied on work of Montgomery-Weinberger. Our method is still quite computer-intensive, but we are able to keep the time needed for the computation down to about seven months. In all cases, we find that there is no abnormally large ``exceptional modulus' of small class number, which agrees with the prediction of the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis.

     

Class numbers of imaginary abelian number fields

Let be an imaginary abelian number field. We know that , the relative class number of , goes to infinity as , the conductor of , approaches infinity, so that there are only finitely many imaginary abelian number fields with given relative class number. First of all, we have found all imaginary abelian number fields with relative class number one: there are exactly 302 such fields. It is known that there are only finitely many CM-fields with cyclic ideal class groups of 2-power orders such that the complex conjugation is the square of some automorphism of . Second, we have proved in this paper that there are exactly 48 such fields.

     

Class numbers and Iwasawa invariants of quadratic fields

Let and be quadratic fields with 2 (mod 3) a positive integer. Let be the respective Iwasawa -invariants of the cyclotomic -extension of these fields. We show that if , then 3 does not divide the class number of and .

     

Reciprocal relations between cyclotomic fields

We describe a reciprocity relation between the prime ideal factorization, and related properties, of certain cyclotomic integers of the type ?n(c−ζm) in the cyclotomic field of the m-th roots of unity and that of the symmetrical elements ?m(c−ζn) in the cyclotomic field of the n-th roots. Here m and n are two positive integers, ?n is the n-th cyclotomic polynomial, ζm a primitive m-th root of unity, and c a rational integer. In particular, one of these integers is a prime element in one cyclotomic field if and only if its symmetrical counterpart is prime in the other cyclotomic field. More properties are also established for the special class of pairs of cyclotomic integers q(1−ζp)−1 and p(1−ζq)−1, where p and q are prime numbers.     

Modular lattices over cyclotomic fields

This paper is concerned with modular lattices over cyclotomic fields. In particular, the notion of Arakelov modular ideal lattice is introduced. All the cyclotomic fields over which there exists an Arakelov modular lattice of given level are characterised.     

Class numbers of quadratic function fields and continued fractions

A function field version of a theorem of F. Hirzebruch relating continued fractions to class numbers of quadratic number fields is established. Our approach is based on Artin's thesis and Zagier's proof of Hirzebruch's theorem. Some of our results seem to be of independent interest, e.g. explicit formulas for Zeta functions of real quadratic function fields.     

Character coordinates and annihilators of cyclotomic numbers

The object of this paper is a representation theoretical approach to the problem of determining allQ-linear relations between conjugate numbers in a cyclotomic field. We apply our method to relations between the numbers cot^(m)(k/n), tan^(m)(k/n), cosec^(m)(2k/n), sec^(m)(2k/n), respectively, where m is0 and (k,n)=1. Thereby we complete previous work of Chowla, Hasse, Jager-Lenstra, and others.     

The Schur group of cyclotomic fields

We compute the Schur group of the cyclotomic fields Q(?_m) and real quadratic fields $\text{Q(d}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>1</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}\text{)}$ where d is a product of an even number of primes congruent to three modulo four. Some results are also given about the Schur group of certain subfields of cyclotomic fields.     

All double coverings of cyclotomic fields

A double covering of a Galois extension K/F in the sense of [3] is an extension /K of degree ≤2 such that /F is Galois. In this paper we determine explicitly all double coverings of any cyclotomic extension over the rational number field in the complex number field. We get the results mainly by Galois theory and by using and modifying the results and the methods in [2] and [3]. Project 10571097 supported by NSFC