Exponent of Class Group of Certain Imaginary Quadratic Fields

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Exponent of Class Group of Certain Imaginary Quadratic Fields

Year : 2020

Publisher : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Source Title : Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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Abstract

Let n > 1 be an odd integer. We prove that there are infinitely many imaginary quadratic fields of the form ℚ(x2−2yn) whose ideal class group has an element of order n. This family gives a counterexample to a conjecture by H. Wada (1970) on the structure of ideal class groups.