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The Class Number of the Cyclotomic Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

N. C. Ankeny  and
S. Chowla
N. C. Ankeny
Affiliation:
Princeton University
S. Chowla
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study
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Let g denote an odd prime, and h = h(g) the class number of the cyclotomic field R(), where is a primitive gth root of unity. It is known that we can write

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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 3 , 1951 , pp. 486 - 494
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1951

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