On Kummer's Conjecture
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M.Ram Murty; Yiannis N Petridis
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Kummer conjectured the asymptotic behavior of the first factor of the class number of a cyclotomic field. If we only ask for upper and lower bounds of the order of growth predicted by Kummer, then this modified Kummer conjecture is true for almost all primes.