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Ideal class groups of some quadratic number fields and factorization of values of some quadratic polynomials

Number Theory 2025-11-20 v1

Abstract

We fill the gaps in A. Gica's determination of all the odd positive integers dd for which the number of distinct prime divisors of fd(x)=d+x2f_d(x)=d+x^2 is less than or equal to 22 for all the positive and odd integers xdx\leq\sqrt{d}. We also determine all the even positive integers dd for which the number of distinct prime divisors of fd(x)f_d(x) is less than or equal to 22 for all the positive and even integers xdx\leq\sqrt{d}. These problems are related to the famous Frobenius-Rabinowitsch's characterization of the imaginary quadratic number fields Q(d){\mathbb Q}(\sqrt{-d}) of odd discriminants with class number one in terms of the primality of fd(x)/4f_d(x)/4 for all the positive and odd integers xdx\leq\sqrt{d}. However, the solution to our problem is much more difficult to come up with. We also begin to address the same problems for the case of fd(x)=dx2f_d(x)=d-x^2, in relation with the class groups of the real quadratic number fields Q(d){\mathbb Q}(\sqrt{d}).

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@article{arxiv.2511.15243,
  title  = {Ideal class groups of some quadratic number fields and factorization of values of some quadratic polynomials},
  author = {Stéphane Louboutin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15243},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages