The study of class number invariants of absolute abelian fields, the investigation of congruences for special values of L-functions, Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms, Rubin's congruences involving the special values of L-functions of elliptic curves with complex multiplication, and many other problems require congruence properties of the generalized Bernoulli numbers (see [16]-[18], [12], [29], [3], etc.). The first steps in this direction can be found in the papers of...

In the $p^n$-th cyclotomic field ${\mathbb{Q}}_{p^n},p$ a prime number, $n\in \mathbb{N}$, the prime $p$ is totally ramified and the only ideal above $p$ is generated by ${\omega }_n={\zeta }_{p^n}-1$, with the primitive $p^n$-th root of unity ${\zeta }_{p^n}=e^{\frac{2\pi i}{p^n}}$. Moreover these numbers represent a norm coherent set, i.e. ${\mathbf{\text{N}}}_{{\mathbb{Q}}_{p^{n+1}}}/{\mathbb{Q}}_{p^n}\left({\omega }_{n+1}\right)={\omega }_n$. It is the aim of this article to establish a similar result for the ray class field $K_{{𝔭}^n}$ of conductor ${𝔭}^n$ over an imaginary quadratic number field $K$ where ${𝔭}^n$ is the power of a prime ideal in $K$. Therefore the exponential function has to be replaced by a suitable elliptic function....

It is well known by results of Golod and Shafarevich that the Hilbert $2$-class field tower of any real quadratic number field, in which the discriminant is not a sum of two squares and divisible by eight primes, is infinite. The aim of this article is to extend this result to any real abelian $2$-extension over the field of rational numbers. So using genus theory, units of biquadratic number fields and norm residue symbol, we prove that for every real abelian $2$-extension over $\mathbb{Q}$ in which eight primes...

Let $𝕜=\mathbb{Q}\left(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{d}\right)$ be an imaginary bicyclic biquadratic number field, where $d$ is an odd negative square-free integer and ${𝕜}_2^{\left(2\right)}$ its second Hilbert $2$-class field. Denote by $G=\mathrm{Gal}({𝕜}_2^{\left(2\right)}/𝕜)$ the Galois group of ${𝕜}_2^{\left(2\right)}/𝕜$. The purpose of this note is to investigate the Hilbert $2$-class field tower of $𝕜$ and then deduce the structure of $G$.

The density of primes dividing at least one term of the Lucas sequence ${\left\{L_n\left(P\right)\right\}}_{n=0}^{\infty }$, defined by $L_0\left(P\right)=2,L_1\left(P\right)=P$ and $L_n\left(P\right)=P{L}_{n-1}\left(P\right)+L_{n-2}\left(P\right)$ for $n\ge 2$, with $P$ an arbitrary integer, is determined.