Successive maxima of the non-genus part of class numbers

arXiv1911.13115MaRDI QIDQ6330102FDOQ6330102

Authors: Georges Gras 

Publication date: 29 November 2019

Abstract: Some PARI programs have bringed out a property for the non-genus part of the class number of the imaginary quadratic fields, with respect to $(sqrtD,{)}^{varepsilon}$, where $D$ is the absolute value of the discriminant and $varepsilonin]0,1[$, in relation with the $varepsilon$-conjecture. The general Conjecture 3.1, restricted to quadratic fields, states that, for $varepsilonin]0,1[$, the successive maxima, as $D$ increases, of $fracH{2}^{N-1}cdot(sqrtD,{)}^{varepsilon}$, where $H$ is the class number and $N$ the number of ramified primes, occur only for prime discriminants (i.e., $H$ odd); we perform computations giving some obviousness in the selected intervals. For degree $p>2$ cyclic fields, we define a "mean value" of the non-genus parts of the class numbers of the fields having the same conductor and obtain an analogous property on the successive maxima. In Theorem 2.5 we prove, under an assumption (true for $p=2,3$), that the sequence of successive maxima of $fracH{p}^{N-1}cdot(sqrtD,{)}^{varepsilon}$ is infinite. Finally we consider cyclic or non-cyclic abelian fields of degrees $4,8,6,9,10,30$ to test the Conjecture 3.1. The successive maxima of $fracH(sqrtD,{)}^{varepsilon}$ are also analyzed.

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