Dirichlet’s Class Number Formula

Author(s):  
Harold Davenport
1991 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masanori Morishita

As an interpretation and a generalization of Gauss’ genus theory on binary quadratic forms in the language of arithmetic of algebraic tori, Ono [02] established an equality between a kind of “Euler number E(K/k)” for a finite Galois extension K/k of algebraic number fields and other arithmetical invariants associated to K/k. His proof depended on his Tamagawa number formula [01] and Shyr’s formula [Sh] which follows from the analytic class number formula of a torus. Later, two direct proofs were given by Katayama [K] and Sasaki [Sa].


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 1199-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERUHISA KADOKAMI ◽  
YASUSHI MIZUSAWA

Based on the analogy between links and primes, we present an analogue of the Iwasawa's class number formula in a Zp-extension for the p-homology groups of pn-fold cyclic covers of a link in a rational homology 3-sphere. We also describe the associated Iwasawa invariants precisely for some examples and discuss analogies with the number field case.


1994 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Lemmermeyer

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 495-498
Author(s):  
Özen Özer

AbstractDifferent types of number theories such as elementary number theory, algebraic number theory and computational number theory; algebra; cryptology; security and also other scientific fields like artificial intelligence use applications of quadratic fields. Quadratic fields can be separated into two parts such as imaginary quadratic fields and real quadratic fields. To work or determine the structure of real quadratic fields is more difficult than the imaginary one.The Dirichlet class number formula is defined as a special case of a more general class number formula satisfying any types of number field. It includes regulator, ℒ-function, Dedekind zeta function and discriminant for the field. The Dirichlet’s class number h(d) formula in real quadratic fields claims that we have h\left(d \right).log {\varepsilon _d} = \sqrt {\Delta} {\scr L} \left({1,\;{\chi _d}}\right) for positive d > 0 and the fundamental unit ɛd of {\rm{\mathbb Q}}\left({\sqrt d} \right) . It is seen that discriminant, ℒ-function and fundamental unit ɛd are significant and necessary tools for determining the structure of real quadratic fields.The focus of this paper is to determine structure of some special real quadratic fields for d > 0 and d ≡ 2,3 (mod4). In this paper, we provide a handy technique so as to calculate particular continued fraction expansion of integral basis element wd, fundamental unit ɛd, and so on for such real quadratic number fields. In this paper, we get fascinating results in the development of real quadratic fields.


2012 ◽  
Vol 08 (05) ◽  
pp. 1257-1270
Author(s):  
M. A. GÓMEZ-MOLLEDA ◽  
JOAN-C. LARIO

We give formulas for the class numbers of bicyclic biquadratic number fields containing an imaginary quadratic field of class number one. The class number is expressed as a finite sum in terms of the basic Jacobi elliptic functions, playing a similar role as the trigonometric sine in Dirichlet classical class number formula.


1962 ◽  
pp. 503-511
Author(s):  
Ichiro Satake ◽  
Genjiro Fujisaki ◽  
Kazuya Kato ◽  
Masato Kurihara ◽  
Shoichi Nakajima

1998 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Chamizo ◽  
Henryk Iwaniec

Abstract.In his masterwork Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Gauss stated an approximate formula for the average of the class number for negative discriminants. In this paper we improve the known estimates for the error term in Gauss approximate formula. Namely, our result can be written as for every ∊ > 0, where H(−n) is, in modern notation, h(−4n). We also consider the average of h(−n) itself obtaining the same type of result.Proving this formula we transform firstly the problem in a lattice point problem (as probably Gauss did) and we use a functional equation due to Shintani and Dirichlet class number formula to express the error term as a sum of character and exponential sums that can be estimated with techniques introduced in a previous work on the sphere problem.


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