Kummer–Vandiver conjecture

Let pp be an odd prime, let ζp\zeta_p be a primitive pp-th root of unity, and let

K=Q(ζp)+=Q(ζp+ζp1)K = \mathbb{Q}(\zeta_p)^{+} = \mathbb{Q}(\zeta_p + \zeta_p^{-1})

be the maximal real subfield of the pp-th cyclotomic field Q(ζp)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_p). Let hKh_K denote the class number of KK, i.e. the order of the ideal class group of the ring of integers of KK; equivalently, hK=h2h_K = h_2 is the second factor in the decomposition h=h1h2h = h_1 h_2 of the class number hh of Q(ζp)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_p), where h2=hKh_2 = h_K and h1=h/hKh_1 = h/h_K.

Then

phKp \nmid h_K

for every odd prime pp.

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