Prem Prakash Pandey – författare

This book gathers original research papers and survey articles presented at the “International Conference on Class Groups of Number Fields and Related Topics,” held at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India, on September 4–7, 2017. It discusses the fundamental research problems that arise in the study of class groups of number fields and introduces new techniques and tools to study these problems. Topics in this book include class groups and class numbers of number fields, units, the Kummer–Vandiver conjecture, class number one problem, Diophantine equations, Thue equations, continued fractions, Euclidean number fields, heights, rational torsion points on elliptic curves, cyclotomic numbers, Jacobi sums, and Dedekind zeta values.

This book is a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics as well as researchers interested in class groups of number fields and their connections to other branches of mathematics. New researchersto the field will also benefit immensely from the diverse problems discussed. All the contributing authors are leading academicians, scientists, researchers, and scholars.

This book collects original research papers and survey articles presented at two conferences on the same theme: the International Conference on Class Groups of Number Fields and Related Topics, held at Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, from 21–24 October 2021 and then from 21–24 November 2022. It presents the fundamental research problems that arise in the study of class groups of number fields and related areas. The book also covers some new techniques and tools to study these problems. Topics in this book include class groups of number fields, units, Ankeny–Artin–Chowla conjecture, Iwasawa theory, elliptic curves, Diophantine equations, partition functions, Diophantine tuples, congruent numbers, Carmichael ideals in a number field and their connection with class groups.

This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in mathematics interested in class groups of number fields and their connections to other branches of mathematics. It also attracts new researchers to the field and young researchers will benefit immensely from the diverse problems discussed in this book. All the contributing authors are leading academicians, scientists and profound researchers. This book is dedicated to Prof. Michel Waldschmidt, a renowned French number theorist, on his 75th birthday.