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We describe the computation of ray class groups of number fields, conductors and discriminants of the corresponding Abelian extensions. As an application we give several number fields with discriminants less than previously known ones.
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Cohen, H., y Diaz, F.D., Olivier, M. (1996). Computing ray class groups, conductors and discriminants. In: Cohen, H. (eds) Algorithmic Number Theory. ANTS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1122. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61581-4_40
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