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Monogenic trinomials and class numbers of related quadratic fields

Number Theory 2025-11-11 v5

Abstract

We say that a monic polynomial f(x)Z[x]f(x)\in {\mathbb Z}[x] of degree N2N\ge 2 is monogenic if f(x)f(x) is irreducible over Q{\mathbb Q} and {1,θ,θ2,,θN1}\{1,\theta,\theta^2,\ldots ,\theta^{N-1}\} is a basis for the ring of integers of Q(θ){\mathbb Q}(\theta), where f(θ)=0f(\theta)=0. In this article, we investigate the divisibility of the class numbers of quadratic fields Q(δ){\mathbb Q}(\sqrt{\delta}) for certain families of monogenic trinomials f(x)=xN+Ax+Bf(x)=x^N+Ax+B, where δ±1\delta\ne \pm 1 is a squarefree divisor of the discriminant of f(x)f(x).

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@article{arxiv.2412.20443,
  title  = {Monogenic trinomials and class numbers of related quadratic fields},
  author = {Lenny Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20443},
  year   = {2025}
}