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May
19
2016

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

On $p$-torsion in class groups of number fields
Lillian Pierce
4:30pm|Fine 214, Princeton University

Gauss famously investigated class numbers of quadratic fields, in particular characterizing the 2-divisibility of the class number for such fields. In general, it is expected that for a number field of any degree, and any rational prime $p$, the $p$...