Imaginary Quadratic Fields with P-Torsion-Free Class Groups and Specified Split Primes

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 09:30 to 10:30

Hall of Arts (HOA) 160
Cooper-Simon Lecture Hall (CMU)

This talk is part of the conference Pittsburgh Links among Analysis and Number Theory (CMU & Pitt)

Speaker Information
Olivia Beckwith
Tulane University

Abstract or Additional Information

We study Ramanujan-type congruences for Hurwitz class numbers using harmonic Maass forms. As an application, we show that for any odd prime p and finite set  of odd primes S, there exists an imaginary quadratic field which splits at each prime in S and has class number indivisible by p. This result is in the spirit of results by Bruinier, Bhargava (when p=3) and Wiles, but the methods are completely different. This is joint work with Martin Raum and Olav Richter.

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