Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4595015 Journal of Number Theory 2008 17 Pages PDF
Abstract

For a compositum of quadratic fields , where d1,…,ds are square-free odd integers and , we study the group C of circular units of k. We construct a basis of C, compute the index of C in the full group of units of k and derive a lower bound for the divisibility of this index by a power of 2. These results give a lower bound for the divisibility of the class number of the maximal real subfield of k by a power of 2.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory