Dedekind sums and class numbers of imaginary abelian number fields
Number Theory
2023-03-27 v1
Abstract
As a consequence of their work, Bruce C. Berndt and Ronald J. Evans in 1977 and Larry Joel Goldstein and Michael Razar in 1976 obtained a formula for the square of the class number of an imaginary quadratic number field in terms of Dedekind sums. Here we focus only on this formula and give a new short and simple proof of it. We finally express the relative class numbers of imaginary abelian number fields in terms of Dedekind sums.
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@article{arxiv.2303.14000,
title = {Dedekind sums and class numbers of imaginary abelian number fields},
author = {Stéphane Louboutin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.14000},
year = {2023}
}