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Redei reciprocity, governing fields and negative Pell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 April 2021
Abstract
We discuss the origin, an improved definition and the key reciprocity property of the trilinear symbol introduced by Rédei [16] in the study of 8-ranks of narrow class groups of quadratic number fields. It can be used to show that such 8-ranks are ‘governed’ by Frobenius conditions on the primes dividing the discriminant, a fact used in the recent work of A. Smith [18, 19]. In addition, we explain its impact in the progress towards proving my conjectural density for solvability of the negative Pell equation $x^2-dy^2=-1$ .
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 172 , Issue 3 , May 2022 , pp. 627 - 654
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