Hypergeometry and the AGM over Finite Fields

arXiv2302.10387MaRDI QIDQ6427122FDOQ6427122

Eleanor McSpirit, Ken Ono

Publication date: 20 February 2023

Abstract: One of the most celebrated applications of Gauss' ${}_2{F}_1$ hypergeometric functions is in connection with the rapid convergence of sequences and special values that arise in the theory of arithmetic and geometric means. This theory was the inspiration for a recent paper cite{jelly1} in which a finite field analogue of AGM${}_{m}athbbR$ was defined and then studied using finite field hypergeometric functions. Instead of convergent sequences, one gets directed graphs that combine to form disjoint unions of graphs that individually resemble "jellyfish". Echoing the connection of hypergeometric functions to periods of elliptic curves, these graphs organize elliptic curves over finite fields. Here we use such "jellyfish swarms" to prove new identities for Gauss' class numbers of positive definite binary quadratic forms. Moreover, we prove that the sizes of jellyfish are in part dictated by the order of the prime above 2 in certain class groups.

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