Class numbers with many prime factors

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2008.03.010MaRDI QIDQ954875zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kalyan Chakraborty, Florian Luca, Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Publication date 18 November 2008

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2008.03.010

zbMATH Keywords

class numberprime factors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Other analytic theory (11R47)

Review text

Let \(\mathbb K\) be a number field, and let \(Cl_\mathbb K\), resp. \(h_\mathbb K\) denote the class group, resp. the class number of \(\mathbb K\). Then the following theorem is proved: Theorem 1. Let \(d\geq 2\) be a positive integer. Then there exists a sequence of number fields \(\mathbb K\) of degree \(d\) whose class numbers tend to infinity such that the inequality \[ \omega(h_\mathbb K)\gg \frac{\log\log h_\mathbb K}{\log\log\log h_\mathbb K} \] holds for each of these fields \(\mathbb K\). The implied constant depends on \(d\). This generalizes and improves the authors' earlier result [Int. J. Number Theory 4, No. 4, 597--611 (2008; Zbl 1165.11081), Theorem 2]. For the proof the authors follow Nakano's construction [\textit{S. Nakano}, J. Reine Angew. Math. 358, 61--75 (1985; Zbl 0559.12004)] of number fields \(\mathbb K\) having class number divisible by a fixed number \(n\). Here they give an explicit upper bound on the absolute value \(D_\mathbb K\) of the discriminant of such a number field. Moreover, the authors give an alternative and more direct proof for the case of the real quadratic fields achieving the same bound.

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