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Pacific Journal of Mathematics |
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As was pointed out to the author by E. Benjamin, the proof of Theorem
1 is incomplete. The argument in the penultimate sentence in that
proof fails to take into account, for example, the case
\begin{gather*}
p_1\equiv 3\;{\rm mod}\;4,\;\;p_j\equiv 1\;{\rm mod}\;4
\qquad (j\geq 2),\\
\left(\f{p_i}{p_j}\right)=\begin{cases}
+1 & \quad \text{if }\;i=1,\;j\neq i\\
-1 & \quad \text{if }\; i>1,\;j\neq i.\end{cases}
\end{gather*}
A treatment of some, but not all, missing cases can be found in a
preprint by Benjamin (``On Imaginary Quadratic Number Fields with
2-Class Group of Rank 4 and infinite 2-Class Field Tower,'' 1999).
We describe here a revision of the original argument which treats all
cases simultaneously, thus completing the proof of Theorem 1.
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