Minkowski's theorem on independent conjugate units

DOI10.1007/S40879-017-0131-YMaRDI QIDQ2012292zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shabnam Akhtari, Jeffrey D. Vaaler

Publication date 28 July 2017

Published in European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03935

zbMATH Keywords

Weil heightindependent units

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11S20) Diophantine inequalities (11J25) Units and factorization (11R27)

Abstract: We call a unit $$ in a Galois extension $l/mathbbQ$ a Minkowski unit if the subgroup generated by $$ and its conjugates over $mathbbQ$ has maximum rank in the unit group of $l$. Minkowski showed the existence of such units in every Galois extension. We will give a new proof to Minkowski's theorem and show that there exists a Minkowski unit $$ such that the Weil height of $$ is comparable with the sum of the heights of a fundamental system of units of $l$. Our proof implies a bound on the index of the subgroup generated by the algebraic conjugates of $$ in the unit group of $l$. If $k$ is an intermediate field such that �egin{equation*} mathbb{Q} subseteq k subseteq l, end{equation*} and $l/mathbbQ$ and $k/mathbbQ$ are Galois extensions, we prove an analogous bound for the subgroup of relative units.

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