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A Genus Two Curve Related to the Class Number One Problem

Algebraic Geometry 2014-11-27 v2

Abstract

We give another solution to the class number one problem by showing that imaginary quadratic fields \Q(d)\Q(\sqrt{-d}) with class number h(d)=1h(-d)=1 correspond to integral points on a genus two curve \mscrK3\mscrK_3. In fact one can find all rational points on \mscrK3\mscrK_3. The curve \mscrK3\mscrK_3 arises naturally via certain coverings of curves:\ \mscrK3\rg\mscrK6\mscrK_3\rg\mscrK_6,\ \mscrK1\rg\mscrK2\mscrK_1\rg\mscrK_2\ with \mscrK2 ⁣:y2=2x(x31)\mscrK_2\colon y^2=2x(x^3-1) denoting the Heegner curve, also in connection with the so-called Heegner-Stark covering \mscrK1\rg\mscrKs\mscrK_1\rg\mscrK_s.

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@article{arxiv.1408.0995,
  title  = {A Genus Two Curve Related to the Class Number One Problem},
  author = {Viet K. Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0995},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

6 pages, \`a la m\'emoire de V. A. Iskovskikh, Submitted

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