We prove that Z is diophantine over the ring of algebraic integers in any totally real number field or quadratic extension of a totally real number field.

We use the theory of continued fractions in conjunction with ideal theory (often called the infrastructure) in real quadratic fields to give new class number 2 criteria and link this to a canonical norm-induced quadratic polynomial. By doing so, this provides a real quadratic field analogue of the well-known result by Hendy (1974) for complex quadratic fields. We illustrate with several example...

Let $G = {rm Res}_{F/mathbb{Q}}(GL_n)$ where $F$ is a number field‎. ‎Let $S^G_{K_f}$ denote an ad`elic locally symmetric space for some level structure $K_f.$ Let ${mathcal M}_{mu,{mathbb C}}$ be an algebraic irreducible representation of $G({mathbb R})$ and we let $widetilde{mathcal{M}}_{mu,{mathbb C}}$ denote the associated sheaf on $S^G_{K_f}.$ The aim of this paper is to classify the data ...

In [Huang-Raskind 2009], the authors proved that the discrete logarithm problem in a prime finite field is random polynomial time equivalent to computing the ramification signature of a real quadratic field. In this paper, we do this for a quadratic extension of a prime field.

In this paper we give an elementary proof of results on the structure of 4-class groups of real quadratic number fields originally due to A. Scholz. In a second (and independent) section we strengthen C. Maire’s result that the 2-class field tower of a real quadratic number field is infinite if its ideal class group has 4-rank ≥ 4, using a technique due to F. Hajir.