Number fields without small generators

DOI10.1017/S0305004115000298MaRDI QIDQ5360345zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey D. Vaaler, Martin Widmer

Publication date 28 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5258

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Other analytic theory (11R47)

Abstract: Let $D>1$ be an integer, and let $b=b(D)>1$ be its smallest divisor. We show that there are infinitely many number fields of degree $D$ whose primitive elements all have relatively large height in terms of $b$, $D$ and the discriminant of the number field. This provides a negative answer to a questions of W. Ruppert from 1998 in the case when $D$ is composite. Conditional on a very weak form of a folk conjecture about the distribution of number fields, we negatively answer Ruppert's question for all $D>3$.

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