Generalised Weber functions (Q2875425)

The purpose of this article is a systematic study of class invariants obtained as singular values of the generalized Weber function \(W_{N}\) which is defined as \(W_{N}=\frac{\eta(\frac{z}{N})}{\eta{(z)}}\), where \(\eta(z)\) is the Dedekind eta-function and \(N\) a natural number \(N\geq 2\).NEWLINENEWLINE The behaviour of \(W_{N}\) under unimodular transformations has been studied and the minimal exponent \(s\) has been determined such that \(W_{N}^{s}\) is invariant under \(\Gamma^{0}(N)\) and \(W_{N}^{s}oS\), (where \(s= \begin{pmatrix} 0 & -1 \\ 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}\)) has a rational \(q\)-expansion. By using Shimura's reciprocity law, the Galois action on the singular values allows the authors not only to determine the precise conditions under which lower powers \(W_{N}^{e}\) with \(e/s\) yields class invariants, but they obtained also a synthetic and simple descriptions of the conjugates and moreover determined when the class invariant has a minimal polynomial with rational coefficients.NEWLINENEWLINE The paper generalises a result of Weber, for \(N=2\), and contains also extensive numerical calculations.