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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 2 20G c Solution by
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Here , , and , so the Minkowski bound for ideal classes isEvery ideal class therefore has a representative of norm at most four. Such classes are generated by the prime ideals above and . Putin additive notation. Since conjugate prime ideals represent inverse classes, the two principal-ideal factorizations from part (b) giveThus and , so the class group is generated by and has order dividing five.
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