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Given a number field , with ring of integers , then the regulator is a number which measures the size of the group of units .
Since the determinant constitutes a group homomorphism from first algebraic K-theory to the group of units, the regulator may also be thought of as extracting information on the first algebraic K-theory group. This is the perspective taken in the generalization to higher regulators (Beilinson regulators) which are effectively Chern characters for algebraic K-theory.
The Dedekind zeta function of has a simple pole at . The class number formula says that its residue there is proportional to the product of the regulator and the class number of
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