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Use of the rabinowitsch polynomial to determine the class groups of a real quadratic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

R.A. Mollin
R.A. Mollin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of CalgaryCalgary, Alberta T2N 1N4Canada
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Abstract

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The main result is a necessary and sufficient condition for the class group of a real quadratic field to be determined by primality properties of the well-known Rabinowitsch polynomial.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , December 1994 , pp. 435 - 443
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1994

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