Mathematics > Number Theory
[Submitted on 9 May 2008]
Title:Ideal class groups and torsion in Picard groups of varieties
View PDFAbstract: We give a new general technique for constructing and counting number fields with an ideal class group of nontrivial m-rank. Our results can be viewed as providing a way of specializing the Picard group of a variety V over $\mathbb{Q}$ to obtain class groups for number fields $\mathbb{Q}(P)$, $P\in V(\Qbar)$, for certain families of points P. In particular, we show how the problem of constructing quadratic number fields with a large-rank ideal class group can be reduced to the problem of finding a hyperelliptic curve with a rational Weierstrass point and a large rational torsion subgroup in its Jacobian. Furthermore, we show how many previous results on constructing large-rank ideal class groups can be fit into our framework and rederived. As an application of our technique, we derive a quantitative version of a theorem of Nakano. This gives the best known general quantitative result on number fields with a large-rank ideal class group.
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