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ideal class (Definition)
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See Also: existence of Hilbert class field, fractional ideal, number field, unramified extensions and class number divisibility, class number divisibility in extensions, push-down theorem on class numbers, Minkowski's constant, extensions without unramified subextensions and class number divisibility, class number divisibility in $p$-extensions, class number divisibility in cyclic extensions, topics on ideal class groups and discriminants, proof of Minkowski's bound

Other names:  ideal classes
Also defines:  class number, ideal class group, class group

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ideal classes form an abelian group (Theorem) by mathcam
ideal class group is finite (Theorem) by rm50
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Cross-references: fractional ideals, subgroup, ideal group, quotient group, abelian group, multiplication, group, operation, semigroup, product of ideals, Abelian semigroup, number, equivalence classes, equivalence relation, relation, algebraic integers, ring, ideals, number field
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This is version 19 of ideal class, born on 2002-04-23, modified 2008-01-23.
Object id is 2869, canonical name is IdealClass.
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AMS MSC11R29 (Number theory :: Algebraic number theory: global fields :: Class numbers, class groups, discriminants)

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