Hermite's constant for function fields

DOI10.4153/CJM-2011-046-6MaRDI QIDQ2882886zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Hurlburt, Jeffrey Lin Thunder

Publication date 11 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL http://cms.math.ca/10.4153/CJM-2011-046-6

zbMATH Keywords

function fieldsheightHermite's constantMinkowski

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Heights (11G50)

Review text

The notion of Hermite's constant first arose in the study of quadratic forms. Later, Minkowski introduced the geometry of numbers and improved on Hermite's original bounds for this constant. The exact value of the original Hermite's constant is known only up to dimension eight. NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper, an analogue of Hermite's constant for function fields over a finite field is formulated and a conjecture analogous to an exact determination of this constant in general is stated. For many specific cases the conjecture is proved and a general result that is just slightly weaker than the conjecture is also proved in this paper. To formulate the analogue, some ideas from the adelic geometry of numbers are used. In particular, the notion of a height on projective space is required. Unlike the case of the rational numbers or any other number field, simple normalization via a scalar multiple to look at fixed determinant can not be used here. For this reason, instead of working with a specific Hermite's constant, the relationship between the first minima and height is used directly.

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