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In this chapter we prove that the Iwasawa congruences cannot be satisfied, thus giving a bound for the divisibility of Bernoulli numbers with characters, and hence a bound for the divisibility of the corresponding class numbers with respect to certain primes.
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Lang, S. (1990). The Ferrero—Washington Theorems. In: Cyclotomic Fields I and II. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 121. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0987-4_11
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