Complex Multiplication and Class Numbers
The link between curves with complex multiplication and class groups of imaginary quadratic orders, and the Hilbert class polynomial.
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Class Number. 7 pages.
The link between curves with complex multiplication and class groups of imaginary quadratic orders, and the Hilbert class polynomial.
Cyclic cubic and pure cubic fields as parametrised families, with closed-form invariants that avoid general algorithms.
Computing class numbers and group structure for imaginary quadratic fields by enumerating reduced forms, and where the method runs out.
Reducing a positive definite binary quadratic form to the unique reduced form in its class, and the resulting class number algorithm.
The class group as the obstruction to unique factorisation, its finiteness, and what a complete computation must produce.
The ideal class group, Dirichlet's unit theorem, the regulator, Minkowski's bound, and the analytic class number formula used to verify computed values.
Computing class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields by enumeration of reduced forms, by analytic class number formulas, and by modular form methods, with the Gauss class numbe…