A note on Siegel's lemma

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Authors D. Masser

Publication date 18 January 1999

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://math.la.asu.edu/~rmmc/rmj/vol26-3/contents/contents.htm

zbMATH Keywords

estimation of the height of a minimal solutionhomogeneous linear equations over a number fieldSiegel's lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonconvex bodies (11H16) Simultaneous homogeneous approximation, linear forms (11J13) Algebraic number theory: global fields (11R99)

Review text

Consider a system of \(M\) homogeneous linear equations in \(N>M\) variables, defined over a number field \(K\). By linear algebra, we know that the system admits nontrivial solutions in \(K^N\); a classical problem is the estimation of the height of a minimal solution. Results in this direction are called ``Siegel's lemmas; perhaps the most precise one is due to \textit{E. Bombieri} and \textit{J. Vaaler} [Invent. Math. 73, 11-32 (1983; Zbl 0533.10030)], who provided upper bounds involving the discriminant of \(K\) over \({\mathbb{Q}}\) and the height of the matrix attached to the linear system. It was not clear from Bombieri-Vaaler's proof whether the dependence on the discriminant of the number field was really necessary. Recently Roy and Thunder (see the following review Zbl 0905.11031) proved that in general the discriminant must appear in the estimation, at least if \(N\geq M+2\). In the paper under review it is proved that in the remaining case, \(N=M+1\), the dependence on the discriminant in Bombieri-Vaaler's estimation is essentially best possible.

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