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Totally real bi-quadratic fields with large P\'{o}lya groups

Number Theory 2021-08-13 v1

Abstract

For an algebraic number field KK with ring of integers OK\mathcal{O}_{K}, an important subgroup of the ideal class group ClKCl_{K} is the {\it P\'{o}lya group}, denoted by Po(K)Po(K), which measures the failure of the OK\mathcal{O}_{K}-module Int(OK)Int(\mathcal{O}_{K}) of integer-valued polynomials on OK\mathcal{O}_{K} from admitting a regular basis. In this paper, we prove that for any integer n2n \geq 2, there are infinitely many totally real bi-quadratic fields KK with Po(K)=2n|Po(K)| = 2^{n}. In fact, we explicitly construct such an infinite family of number fields. This extends an infinite family of bi-quadratic fields with P\'{o}lya group Z/2Z\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z} given by the authors in \cite{self-ja}. This also provides an infinite family of bi-quadratic fields with class numbers divisible by 2n2^{n}.

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@article{arxiv.2108.05688,
  title  = {Totally real bi-quadratic fields with large P\'{o}lya groups},
  author = {Jaitra Chattopadhyay and Anupam Saikia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05688},
  year   = {2021}
}

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7 pages

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