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Indivisibility of class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields

Number Theory 2017-11-07 v4

Abstract

We quantify a recent theorem of Wiles on class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields by proving an estimate for the number of negative fundamental discriminants down to -X whose class numbers are indivisible by a given prime and whose imaginary quadratic fields satisfy any given set of local conditions. This estimate matches the best results in the direction of the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics for the number of imaginary quadratic fields with class number indivisible by a given prime. This general result is applied to study rank 0 twists of certain elliptic curves.

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@article{arxiv.1612.04443,
  title  = {Indivisibility of class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields},
  author = {Olivia Beckwith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04443},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, revised version based on reviewer's comments