Overview
In Hardy and Williams, 1986] the authors exploited a very simple idea to obtain a linear congruence involving class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields modulo a certain power of 2. Their congruence provided a unified setting for many congruences proved previously by other authors using various means. The Hardy-Williams idea was as follows. Let d be the discriminant of a quadratic field. Suppose that d is odd and let d = PIP2- . . Pn be its unique decomposition into prime discriminants. Then, for any positive integer k coprime with d, the congruence holds trivially as each Legendre-Jacobi-Kronecker symbol ( ) has the value + 1 or -1. Expanding this product gives eld e: =l (mod4) where e runs through the positive and negative divisors of d and v (e) denotes the number of distinct prime factors of e. Summing this congruence for o
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- ISBN-13: 9780792363798
- ISBN-10: 0792363795
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: June 2000
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.24 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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