Kummer's relative class number conjecture

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Let qq be a prime, let h1(q)h_1(q) be the relative class number of the cyclotomic field Q(ζq)\mathbb Q(\zeta_q) over its maximal real subfield, and define

G(q)=2q(q4π2)(q−1)/4,R(q)=h1(q)G(q).G(q)=2q\left(\frac{q}{4\pi^2}\right)^{(q-1)/4},\qquad R(q)=\frac{h_1(q)}{G(q)}.

The Kummer conjecture. As qq tends to infinity, R(q)R(q) tends to 11. This is the classical asymptotic prediction for relative class numbers; the paper later gives average bounds, but the conjecture itself is not resolved here.

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Neelam Kandhil, Alessandro Languasco, Pieter Moree, Sumaia Saad Eddin and Alisa Sedunova, “Relative class numbers and Euler-Kronecker constants of maximal real cyclotomic subfields”, arXiv:2407.09113 (2024).

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