Square classes of totally positive units

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2006.04.010MaRDI QIDQ884515zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Myung Hwan Kim, Sung-Geun Lim

Publication date 6 June 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2006.04.010

zbMATH Keywords

square classesTaussky's conjecturetotally positive units

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cyclotomic extensions (11R18) Units and factorization (11R27) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Review text

The authors investigate some conditions under which every totally positive unit of a real cyclic extension \(K\) of \(\mathbb Q\) is the square of a unit of \(K\). If \(K\) is the maximal real subfield of the cyclotomic field \(\mathbb Q(\exp(2 \pi i /q) )\) where \(q\) is a Sophie Germain prime of the form \(q = 2p+1\), with \(p\) prime, then Olga Taussky conjectured that every totally positive unit of \(K\) is a perfect square. In the paper under review, the authors prove that if \(p\) is congruent to 1 (mod 4) and if 2 generates a subgroup of index 2 in \((\mathbb Z/p\mathbb Z)^{\times}\), then Taussky's conjecture is true. Other real abelian extensions of a certain type are also considered. This is a well-written short paper dealing with a classical interesting problem studied by many mathematicians.

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