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Improvements in the computation of ideal class groups of imaginary quadratic number fields
We investigate improvements to the algorithm for the computation
of ideal class groups described by Jacobson in the imaginary quadratic case.
These improvements rely on the large prime strategy and a new method for
performing the linear algebra phase. We achieve a significant speed-up and are
able to compute ideal class groups with discriminants of 110 decimal digits in
less than a week.