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In this short note, we construct a family of imaginary quadratic fields whose class group has 3-rank at least 2. We show that, for every large X, there are \(\gg X^{\frac{1}{2}-\epsilon }\) such fields with the discriminant \(-D\) satisfying \(D\le X\).
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We thank Professor Michael Filaseta for helpful discussions. We are grateful to the anonymous referee for carefully reviewing this paper, correcting several issues, and suggesting some changes that improved the presentation of this work. We also thank the referee for bringing the preprint [11] to our attention.
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Yu, G. Imaginary quadratic fields with class groups of 3-rank at least 2. manuscripta math. 163, 569–574 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-019-01172-3
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