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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
Let L = Q[α] be a cyclic number field of odd prime degree q over the field Q of rationals. In this paper we give an algorithm to compute the discriminant of L/Q, which relies upon a fast method to find Eisenstein elements in L. The algorithm accepts as input the minimal polynomial of α over Q and a complete factorisation of the discriminant of α, and computes, in time polynomial in the size of the input, a list consisting of all the ramified primes with corresponding Eisenstein elements.