An analogue of Kummer's relation between the ideal class number and the unit index of cyclotomic fields

Publication date: 2 February 2019

Abstract: In this paper, we obtain a formula for the special value of Euler-Dirichlet

L

-function

L_{E} (s, c h i)

at

s = 1

. This leads to another class number formula of

m a t h b b Q (m u_{m})^{+}

, the maximal real subfield of

m

th cyclotomic field. From this formula, we construct a new type of cyclotomic units in

m a t h b b Q (m u_{p^{n}})

, which implies a similar Kummer's relation between the ideal class number of

m a t h b b Q (m u_{p^{n}})^{+}

and the unit index.

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