Equidistribution of shapes of complex cubic fields of fixed quadratic resolvent

DOI10.2140/ANT.2021.15.1095MaRDI QIDQ2045153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Harron

Publication date 12 August 2021

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07209

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic number theoryarithmetic statisticscubic fieldsequidistributiongeodesicslatticesmajorant space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Cubic and quartic extensions (11R16) Density theorems (11R45)

Abstract: We show that the shape of a complex cubic field lies on the geodesic of the modular surface defined by the field's trace-zero form. We also prove a general such statement for all orders in 'etale Q-algebras. Applying a method of Manjul Bhargava and Piper H to results of Bhargava and Ariel Shnidman, we prove that the shapes lying on a fixed geodesic become equidistributed with respect to the hyperbolic measure as the discriminant of the complex cubic field goes to infinity. We also show that the shape of a complex cubic field is a complete invariant (within the family of all cubic fields).

Review text

The notion of the shape, of a number field \(K\), was introduced by \textit{D. Terr} [The distribution of shapes of cubic orders. University of California (Ph.D. thesis) (1997)]; wich is a certain lattice of rank \( [K : \mathbb Q] -1\) attached to \(K\) considered up to rotation, reflection, and scaling. In particular, he proved that the shapes of cubic fields are equidistributed in the space of shapes of rank \(2\) lattices as the discriminant of the cubic field goes to infinity. Other authors, to other number fields, generalized this result. The author investigate, first, the distribution of more specific families of number fields. Then he show that the shape of a complex cubic field lies on the geodesic of the modular surface defined by the field's trace-zero form. Applying a method of \textit{M. Bhargava} and the author [Compos. Math. 152, No. 6, 1111--1120 (2016; Zbl 1347.11074)] to results of Bhargava and Ariel Shnidman, he proves that the shapes lying on a fixed geodesic become equidistributed with respect to the hyperbolic measure as the discriminant of the complex cubic field goes to infinity. He also show that the shape of a complex cubic field is a complete invariant within the family of all cubic fields.

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• The equidistribution of lattice shapes of rings of integers in cubic, quartic, and quintic number fields
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• The shapes of pure cubic fields
• The shape of cyclic number fields
• Distribution of periodic torus orbits and Duke's theorem for cubic fields
• On the shapes of pure prime-degree number fields

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