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Consider proper equivalence classes of forms with discriminant
equal to the field discriminant, then they can be
subdivided equally into
genera of
forms which form a subgroup of the proper equivalence class group
under composition (Cohn 1980, p. 224), where
is the number of distinct prime divisors of
. This theorem was proved by
Gauß
in 1801.
References
Arno, S.; Robinson, M. L.; and Wheeler, F. S. ``Imaginary Quadratic Fields with Small Odd Class Number.''
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Algebraic-Number-Theory/0009/.
Cohn, H. Advanced Number Theory. New York: Dover, 1980.
Gauss, C. F. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966.