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J. Korean Math. Soc. 2018; 55(1): 131-146

Online first article June 15, 2017      Printed January 1, 2018

https://doi.org/10.4134/JKMS.j170079

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Generation of ring class fields by eta-quotients

Ja Kyung Koo, Dong Hwa Shin, Dong Sung Yoon

KAIST, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, KAIST

Abstract

We generate ring class fields of imaginary quadratic fields in terms of the special values of certain eta-quotients, which are related to the relative norms of Siegel-Ramachandra invariants. These give us minimal polynomials with relatively small coefficients from which we are able to solve certain quadratic Diophantine equations concerning non-convenient numbers.

Keywords: class field theory, complex multiplication, elliptic and modular units

MSC numbers: Primary 11G16; Secondary 11F03, 11G15, 11R37