On Dirichlet biquadratic fields

Abstract: We study the

4

-rank of the ideal class group of

K_{n} := m a t h b b Q (s q r t - n, s q r t n)

. Our main result is that for a positive proportion of the squarefree integers

n

we have that the

4

-rank of

e x t C l (K_{n})

equals

o m e g a_{3} (n) - 1

, where

o m e g a_{3} (n)

is the number of prime divisors of

n

that are

3

modulo

4

.

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