A generalized Hermite constant for imaginary quadratic fields

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-2015-02903-2MaRDI QIDQ5246846zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Wai Kiu Chan, M. I. Icaza, Emilio A. Lauret

Publication date 22 April 2015

Published in Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3714

zbMATH Keywords

binary forms over imaginary quadratic fieldsextreme hermitian formsHermite constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minima of forms (11H50) Quadratic forms (reduction theory, extreme forms, etc.) (11H55)

Abstract: We introduce the projective Hermite constant for positive definite binary hermitian forms associated with an imaginary quadratic number field $K$. It is a lower bound for the classical Hermite constant, and these two constants coincide when $K$ has class number one. Using the geometric tools developed by Mendoza and Vogtmann for their study of the homology of the Bianchi groups, we compute the projective Hermite constants for those $K$ whose absolute discriminants are less than 70, and determine the hermitian forms that attain the projective Hermite constants in these cases. A comparison of the projective hermitian constant with some other generalizations of the classical Hermite constant is also given.

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