On the exponents of class groups of some families of imaginary quadratic fields (Q2046661): Difference between revisions

Many mathematicians obtained interesting results concerning the divisibility of the class number of real (resp. imaginary) quadratic number fields by a fixed integer \(n\) . A more difficult problem is to look for class groups containing a subgroup isomorphic to \(\mathbb Z/n\mathbb Z\). In particular, some considered the parametric family of imaginary quadratic fields \(\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{x^2-4y^n})\) with parametric integers \(x\geq1,y\geq 2,\) and \(n\geq 2\). The author starts his nice paper with a survey of the literature on the subject. Under some hypotheses, he shows that this last family has a subgroup isomorphic to \(\mathbb Z/n\mathbb Z\). He also proved that his family contains infinitely many primes \(p\). Some results of Bugeaud and Shorey, Gross and Rohrlich are involved. The paper concludes with some tables.