Abstract
The title of this talk is still an open question. Very few positive answers will be provided here. We will give, however, a survey of solutions of the class number one and/or class number two problem for various types of fields.
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- Number Field
- Class Number
- Quadratic Field
- Ideal Class Group
- Cyclotomic Field
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Masley, J.M. (1979). Where are number fields with small class number?. In: Nathanson, M.B. (eds) Number Theory Carbondale 1979. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 751. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0062711
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