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The complex analytic class number formulas date back to the 19th century. They relate class numbers of cyclotomic fields and units. They arise by factoring the zeta function of a cyclotomic field in L-series, and looking at the factorization of the residue.
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Lang, S. (1978). Complex Analytic Class Number Formulas. In: Cyclotomic Fields. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 59. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9945-5_3
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