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The least prime ideal in a given ideal class

Number Theory 2018-05-07 v3

Abstract

Let KK be a number field with the discriminant DKD_K and the class number hKh_{K}, which has bounded degree over Q\mathbb{Q}. By assuming GRH, we prove that every ideal class of KK contains a prime ideal with norm less than hK2log(DK)2h_{K}^2\log(D_K)^{2} and also all but o(hK)o(h_K) of them have a prime ideal with norm less than hKlog(DK)2+ϵh_{K}\log(D_K)^{2+\epsilon}. For imaginary quadratic fields K=Q(D)K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{D}), by assuming Conjecture~\ref{piarcor} (a weak version of the pair correlation conjecure), we improve our bounds by removing a factor of log(D)\log(D) from our bounds and show that these bounds are optimal.

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@article{arxiv.1802.06193,
  title  = {The least prime ideal in a given ideal class},
  author = {Naser T. Sardari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06193},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1803.03218

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