The class-number one problem for some real cubic number fields with negative discriminants

AbstractWe prove that there are effectively only finitely many real cubic number fields of a given class number with negative discriminants and ring of algebraic integers generated by an algebraic unit. As an example, we then determine all these cubic number fields of class number one. There are 42 of them. As a byproduct of our approach, we obtain a new proof of Nagell's result according to which a real cubic unit ϵ>1 of negative discriminant is generally the fundamental unit of the cubic order Z[ϵ]