A measure of simultaneous approximation for quasi-modular functions

DOI10.1023/A:1011484927500MaRDI QIDQ5943744zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pierre Grinspan

Publication date 17 September 2001

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011484927500

zbMATH Keywords

abelian varietieselliptic curvesG-functionsheightmodular functionsperiodssimultaneous Diophantine approximationtranscendence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Measures of irrationality and of transcendence (11J82) Transcendence theory of elliptic and abelian functions (11J89) Transcendence theory of other special functions (11J91)

Review text

Let \(y^2=4x^3-g_2x-g_3\) be the equation of an elliptic curve with algebraic invariants \(g_2,g_3\), and let \(\Lambda\subset{\mathbb C}\) be the associated period lattice. It is known since Schneider's work in the 30's that, if \(\omega\) is a non-zero element of \(\Lambda\) and if \(\eta\) is the associated quasi-period, then the quotient \(\eta/\omega\) is a transcendental number. The main result of this paper is a discriminating measure of approximation for the pair of modular functions \(\Pi(\tau)\) and \(\lambda(\tau)\). It implies that there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that, for any real numbers \(D,h>C\) and any algebraic number \(\alpha\) of degree \([{\mathbb Q}(\alpha):{\mathbb Q}] \leq D\) and absolute logarithmic height \(h(\alpha) \leq h\), we have \[ \left|\alpha-{\eta\over\omega}\right|\leq \exp\big( -CD^2(h+\log D)\log(D)^{3/2} \big). \] This improves on a result of \textit{N.~Saradha} [Transcendence measure for \(\eta/\omega\), Acta Arith. 92, 11-25 (2000; Zbl 0946.11014)] but does not quite contain an earlier result of \textit{E.~Reyssat} in [Approximation algébrique de nombres liés aux fonctions elliptiques et exponentielle, Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 108, 47-79 (1980; Zbl 0432.10018)] although it improves on it in some range for \(D\) and \(h\). The proof uses the ``G-function property of hypergeometric functions in the context of the modular method of Yu.~Nesterenko, as well as Galois considerations.

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