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Finding fundamental units in totally real fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

T. W. Cusick
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo

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Let F a totally real cubic field. For any number α in F, let α, α′, α″ denote the conjugates of α. Define the function T(α) by

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1984

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