Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ii Paper 2 20H ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For the ideal class group of the imaginary quadratic field of discriminant minus eighty-four, write . Here , , and the Minkowski bound for ideal classes is . Thus every class has a representative of norm at most five. The relevant prime ideals areThe first two are ramified: and . Also , as both sides have norm 25 and . The element has norm 30 andThere are no elements of norms 2, 3, 5 or 6, since the element norm is . Hence the classes of , and their product are all nontrivial and distinct. The relation makes the last product equal to the class of . Ideals of norm four are principal, and the two primes above five have the same class of order two. The norm bound therefore gives no further classes. Thus