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1997 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Dirichlet Characters
Author : Lawrence C. Washington
Published in: Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields
Publisher: Springer New York
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In this chapter we introduce the basic facts about Dirichlet characters. We then show how they may be used to obtain information about the arithmetic of number fields. As a result, we show how to obtain ideal class groups containing prescribed subgroups.