FINITENESS OF THE CLASS GROUP OF A NUMBER FIELD VIA LATTICE PACKINGS

J. Carmelo Interlando (USA), Trajano Pires Da Nóbrega Neto (Brazil) and José Valter Lopes Nunes (Brazil)

Received October 29, 2008

References:

[1] J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Groups, Third Edison, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. [2] R. A. Mollin, Algebraic Number Theory, Chapman and Hall/CRC, New York, 1999.

Keywords and phrases: number fields, class groups, geometry of numbers.