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In this chapter we introduce the basic facts about Dirichlet characters. We then show how they may be used to obtain information about the arithmetic of number fields. As a result, we show how to obtain ideal class groups containing prescribed subgroups.
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Washington, L.C. (1982). Dirichlet Characters. In: Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 83. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0133-2_3
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