Closed sets of Mahler measures

DOI10.1090/PROC/13951MaRDI QIDQ4609820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Smyth

Publication date 26 March 2018

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04338

zbMATH Keywords

closureMahler measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure (11R06)

Abstract: Given a $k$-variable Laurent polynomial $F$, any $limesk$ integer matrix $A$ naturally defines an $l$-variable Laurent polynomial $F_A.$ I prove that for fixed $F$ the set $mathcalM(F)$ of all the logarithmic Mahler measures $m(F_A)$ of $F_A$ for all $A$ is a closed subset of the real line. Moreover, the matrices $A$ can be assumed to be of a special form, which I call Primitive Hermite Normal Form. Furthermore, if $F$ has integer coefficients and $mathcalM(F)$ contains $0,$ then $0$ is an isolated point of this set. I also show that, for a given bound $B>0$, the set ${mathcalM}_B$ of all Mahler measures of integer polynomials in any number of variables and having length (sum of the moduli of its coefficients) at most $B$ is closed. Again, $0$ is an isolated point of ${mathcalM}_B$. These results constitute evidence consistent with a conjecture of Boyd from 1980 to the effect that the union $mathcalL$ of all sets ${mathcalM}_B$ for $B>0$ is closed, with $0$ an isolated point of $mathcalL$.

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