Irregular primes and cyclotomic invariants
Irregular primes and cyclotomic invariants
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不规则素数和分圆不变量
DOI:
10.1090/s0025-5718-1975-0376606-9
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发表时间:
1975
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2
通讯作者:
W. Johnson
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作者:
W. Johnson
The table of irregular primes less than 30000 has been computed and deposited in the UMT file. The fraction of irregular primes in this range is 0.3924, close to the heuristic prediction of 1 -e 112. Fermat's Last Theorem has been verified for all prime exponents p < 30000, and the cyclotomic invariants ,p, Xp, and vp of Iwasawa have been completely determined for these primes. The computations show that for p in this range, A,p = 0 and the invariants Xp and vp both equal the index of irregularity of p. 1. Historical Summary and Introduction. It has been roughly 125 years since Kummer proved his monumental theorem that the Fermat equation xP + yP = ZP has no nontrivial integral solutions for regular prime exponents p. A prime p is called regular if it does not divide the numerator of any of the Bernoulli numbers B2, B4, * * , Bp_3. This condition is equivalent to the assumption that p does not divide the class number of the cyclotomic field obtained by adjoining a primitive pth root of unity to the rational field. A detailed exposition of these results appears in [1]Kummer himself began the search for the primes to which his proof of the Fermat conjecture did not apply. By 1874 he had determined that exactly 8 of the 37 odd primes less than 165 are irregular, including the prime 157, the first prime which divides the numerators of two of the Bernoulli numbers in question. With the aid of desk calculators, Vandiver and his associates [23] continued the computations to 617 in the 1930's. By 1955, Vandiver, D. H. Lehmer, E. Lehmer, Selfridge and Nicol [12], [24], [17] had completed the computations to 4001 on the SWAC computer at Los Angeles. In 1963, D. H. Lehmer [11] reported statistical results to 10000, and in 1964 Selfridge and Pollack [18] announced completion of the table to 25000 on the IBM 7090 at UCLA. These latter tables have not appeared in print. In 1970, Kobelev [10] published the table to 5500 and this was extended to 8000 by the author [8] in 1973. Received June 13, 1974. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 10A40, 12A35, 12AS0.