Effect of monogenicity on $2$-torsion in the class group of number fields of odd degree (2011.08834v2)

Abstract: We study average $2$-torsion in the class group of monogenised fields of odd degree. Bhargava-Hanke-Shankar have recently shown that the average number of non-trivial $2$-torsion elements in the class group of monogenised cubic fields of a fixed signature is twice the value predicted by the Cohen-Lenstra-Martinet-Malle heuristic for the full family. Fix any odd degree $n$ and signature $(r_{1},r_{2})$. In this work, we prove that the average number of non-trivial elements in the class group of monogenised fields of degree $n$ and signature $(r_{1},r_{2})$ is bounded by twice the value predicted by Cohen-Lenstra-Martinet-Malle. Conditional on a tail estimate for $n \ge 5$, this shows that the doubling phenomenon uncovered for cubic fields by Bhargava-Hanke-Shankar persists across all odd degrees and signatures.