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NOTE ON THE p-DIVISIBILITY OF CLASS NUMBERS OF AN INFINITE FAMILY OF IMAGINARY QUADRATIC FIELDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2021

SRIlAKSHMI KRISHNAMOORTHY
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India e-mails: srilakshmi@iisertvm.ac.in; sunil4960016@iisertvm.ac.in
SUNIL KUMAR PASUPULATI
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India e-mails: srilakshmi@iisertvm.ac.in; sunil4960016@iisertvm.ac.in

Abstract

For any odd prime p, we construct an infinite family of imaginary quadratic fields whose class numbers are divisible by p. We give a corollary that settles Iizuka’s conjecture for the case n=1 and p>2.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust

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