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Imaginary bicyclic biquadratic fields with the real quadratic subfield of class-number one

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Hideo Yokoi*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, College of General Education, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464, Japan
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It has been proved by A. Baker [1] and H. M. Stark [7] that there exist exactly 9 imaginary quadratic fields of class-number one. On the other hand, G.F. Gauss has conjectured that there exist infinitely many real quadratic fields of class-number one, and the conjecture is now still unsolved.

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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1986

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