An Application of the Dedekind-Hasse Criterion

2012/05/05 by Lemmermeyer, Franz
#11R11 #FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.1147

Abstract

In this article we show how the Dedekind-Hasse criterion may be applied to prove a simple result about quadratic number fields that usually is derived as a consequence of the theory of ideals and ideal classes.

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