The class-number distribution conjecture for prime-generated real quadratic fields

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Let pip_i) be the ii-th prime, let P={Q(p)∣p prime}\mathfrak{P}=\{\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{p})\mid p\text{ prime}\}, and define

P(h=q)=lim⁡x→∞#{i∣h(Q(pi))=q, i⩽x}x.\mathbb{P}(h=q)=\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{\#\{i\mid h(\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{p_i}))=q,\ i\leqslant x\}}{x}.

Assume these probabilities exist for all positive odd integers qq. Write P(h=1)=P0\mathbb{P}(h=1)=\mathbb{P}_0 and P(h=q)=λqP0\mathbb{P}(h=q)=\lambda_q\mathbb{P}_0, so that λ1=1\lambda_1=1. The class-number distribution conjecture. For every odd prime pp,

λp=1p(p−1),λpn=λpn−1(p⌊n/2+1⌋−1)−1(n⩾2),\lambda_p=\frac{1}{p(p-1)},\qquad \lambda_{p^n}=\lambda_{p^{n-1}}\left(p^{\lfloor n/2+1\rfloor}-1\right)^{-1}\quad(n\geqslant2),

and if q=p1r1⋯ptrtq=p_1^{r_1}\cdots p_t^{r_t}, then

λq=λp1r1⋯λptrt.\lambda_q=\lambda_{p_1^{r_1}}\cdots\lambda_{p_t^{r_t}}.

The conjecture predicts the relative frequencies of every positive odd class number in this family. The paper states that it implies that more than 75%75\% of these fields have class number one, and hence implies Gauss's real quadratic class-number conjecture; it also notes that the claim is far from proved and that numerical convergence is slow.

References

Primary source

Jinwen Xu, “Conjectures on the distribution behavior of the class numbers of certain real quadratic number fields”, arXiv:2104.08561 (2021).

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