On the exponents of class groups of some families of imaginary quadratic fields (Q2046661)

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.