No Singular Modulus Is a Unit

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNY274MaRDI QIDQ5854272zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yuri Bilu, Lars Kühne, Philipp Habegger

Publication date 16 March 2021

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07167

zbMATH Keywords

André-Oort conjecturecomplex multiplicationelliptic curvesmodular formssingular moduliunlikely intersections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex multiplication and moduli of abelian varieties (11G15) Arithmetic aspects of modular and Shimura varieties (11G18) Heights (11G50) Rational points (14G05)

Abstract: A result of the second-named author states that there are only finitely many CM-elliptic curves over $mathbbC$ whose $j$-invariant is an algebraic unit. His proof depends on Duke's Equidistribution Theorem and is hence non-effective. In this article, we give a completely effective proof of this result. To be precise, we show that every singular modulus that is an algebraic unit is associated with a CM-elliptic curve whose endomorphism ring has discriminant less than $10^{15}$. Through further refinements and computer-assisted computations, we eventually rule out all remaining cases, showing that no singular modulus is an algebraic unit. This allows us to exhibit classes of subvarieties in $mathbb{C}^n$ not containing any special points.

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