Lower bound for ideal class numbers of real quadratic function fields

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Authors Xianke Zhang, Kun Peng Wang

Publication date 31 October 2001

Published in Tsinghua Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractions of algebraic functionslower bound of ideal class numbersreal quadratic function fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic extensions (11R11) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58)

Review text

\textit{K. Feng} and \textit{W. Hu} obtained a lower bound of ideal class numbers for real quadratic function fields [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 127, 1301-1307 (1999; Zbl 0924.11089)]. In this paper, the authors intend to generalize this result by using the theory of continued fractions of algebraic functions and obtain some results as follows: Let \(K=k(\sqrt{D})\) be a real quadratic function field over the rational function field \(k/F_q\) and suppose that \(P\) is an irreducible polynomial of \(k\) splitting in \(K\) with \(\text{deg }P\leq d-1\), \(2d = \text{deg }D\). Then for any of six types of \(D = A^2+c\), \((A^m+a)^2+A\) and so on, \(h(K)\geq\text{deg }A/\text{deg }P\) holds, where \(h(K)\) is the ideal class number of \(K\). Consequently, they show moreover that there exist six classes of real quadratic function fields with ideal class number greater than one.

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