Metric Mahler measures over number fields

DOI10.1007/S10474-017-0770-YMaRDI QIDQ1705197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles L. Samuels

Publication date 14 March 2018

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07932

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental unitideal class groupMahler measureheight functionmetric Mahler measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heights (11G50) Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Quadratic extensions (11R11) Units and factorization (11R27) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Abstract: For an algebraic number $alpha$, the metric Mahler measure $m_1(alpha)$ was first studied by Dubickas and Smyth in 2001 and was later generalized to the $t$-metric Mahler measure $m_t(alpha)$ by the author in 2010. The definition of $m_t(alpha)$ involves taking an infimum over a certain collection $N$-tuples of points in $overlinemathbbQ$, and from previous work of Jankauskas and the author, the infimum in the definition of $m_t(alpha)$ is attained by rational points when $alphainmathbbQ$. As a consequence of our main theorem in this article, we obtain an analog of this result when $mathbbQ$ is replaced with any imaginary quadratic number field of class number equal to $1$. Further, we study examples of other number fields to which our methods may be applied, and we establish various partial results in those cases.

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