On the relations among the class numbers of binary cubic forms
On the relations among the class numbers of binary cubic forms
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论二元三次形式的类数关系
DOI:
10.1007/s002220050259
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1998
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Jin Nakagawa
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作者:
Jin Nakagawa
The study of class numbers of binary cubic forms was initiated by G. Eisenstein [7],[8] in the middle of the 19th century. Further contributions were made by F. Arndt [1], C. Hermite [9] and others. Explicit computation of the class numbers was done by Arndt [2] and Mathews and Berwick [11]. In 1951, H. Davenport obtained in [4] asymptotic formulae for the sums of the class numbers of binary cubic forms of positive and negative discriminants. Using this result, Davenport and Heilbronn obtained in [5] the density theorems of the discriminants of cubic fields of positive and negative discriminants.In 1972, T. Shintani made a remarkable contribution to the study of class numbers of binary cubic forms by applying the theory of prehomogeneous vector spaces which was founded by M. Sato in 1960's (cf.[16],[18]). Shintani defined the zeta functions associated with the prehomogeneous vector space of binary cubic forms. He introduced four Dirichlet series whose coefficients are class numbers of integral binary cubic forms. Using the theory of prehomogeneous vector spaces, he proved that the four Dirichlet series are analytically continued to meromorphic functions on the whole complex plane and satisfy certain functional equations. Recently, Y. Ohno calculated the first two hundred coefficients of all of the four series and presented in [13] a new conjecture which states that the two of the four Dirichlet series are essentially the same as the remaining two series up to some elementary factors. The purpose of this paper is to prove