Class number one criteria for real quadratic fields. I (Q579313)

In this paper, the author intends to generalize results by the reviewer [Class numbers and fundamental units of algebraic number fields, Proc. Int. Conf., Katata/Jap. 1986, 125-137 (1986; Zbl 0612.12010)], \textit{S. Louboutin} [Arithmétique des corps quadratiques réels et fractions continues, Thèse de Doctorat, Univ. Paris VII] and himself [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 101, 439-444 (1987)] on class number one problem for real quadratic fields. Namely, he considers real quadratic fields \({\mathbb{Q}}(\sqrt{n})\) with positive square-free integers n such that \(n\equiv 1\) (mod 4) and \(\sqrt{n-1}/2\leq A\), where A is \((2T/\sigma -\sigma -1)/U^ 2\) for the fundamental unit \((T+U\sqrt{n})/\sigma >1\) of \({\mathbb{Q}}(\sqrt{n})\), and gives some necessary and sufficient conditions for these real quadratic fields to have class number one.