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Values of the Dedekind Eta Function at Quadratic Irrationalities: Corrigendum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alfred J. van der Poorten
Affiliation:
Centre for Number Theory Research School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics Macquarie University Sydney, NSW Australia 2109, email: alf@math.mq.edu.au
Kenneth S. Williams
Affiliation:
Centre for Research in Algebra and Number Theory School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, email: williams@math.carleton.ca
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Abstract

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Habib Muzaffar of Carleton University has pointed out to the authors that in their paper $\left[ \text{A} \right]$ only the result

$${{\pi }_{K,d}}\left( x \right)\,+\,{{\pi }_{{{K}^{-1}},d}}\left( x \right)\,=\,\frac{1}{h\left( d \right)}\,\frac{x}{\log x}\,+\,{{O}_{K,d}}\left( \frac{x}{{{\log }^{2}}x} \right)$$

follows from the prime ideal theorem with remainder for ideal classes, and not the stronger result

$${{\pi }_{K,d}}\left( x \right)\,=\,\frac{1}{2h\left( d \right)}\,\frac{x}{\log \,x}\,+\,{{O}_{K,d}}\left( \frac{x}{{{\log }^{2}}\,x} \right)$$

stated in Lemma 5.2. This necessitates changes in Sections 5 and 6 of $\left[ \text{A} \right]$. The main results of the paper are not affected by these changes. It should also be noted that, starting on page 177 of $\left[ \text{A} \right]$, each and every occurrence of $o\left( s-1 \right)$ should be replaced by $o\left( 1 \right)$.

Sections 5 and 6 of $\left[ \text{A} \right]$ have been rewritten to incorporate the abovementioned correction and are given below. They should replace the original Sections 5 and 6 of $\left[ \text{A} \right]$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2001

References

[A] van der Poorten, A. J. and Williams, K. S., Values of the Dedekind eta function at quadratic irrationalities. Canad. J. Math. 51 (1999), 176224.Google Scholar