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Divisibility of class numbers of imaginary quadratic function fields

Vol. 1 (2008), No. 1, 47–58
##### Abstract

We consider applications to function fields of methods previously used to study divisibility of class numbers of quadratic number fields. Let $K$ be a quadratic extension of ${\mathbb{F}}_{q}\left(x\right)$, where $q$ is an odd prime power. We first present a function field analog to a Diophantine method of Soundararajan for finding quadratic imaginary function fields whose class groups have elements of a given order. We also show that this method does not miss many such fields. We then use a method similar to Hartung to show that there are infinitely many imaginary $K$ whose class numbers are indivisible by any odd prime distinct from the characteristic.

##### Keywords
number theory, quadratic function fields, class numbers, class groups, divisibility
Primary: 11R29
Secondary: 11R11