A conjectural improvement for inequalities related to regulators of number fields

DOI10.1007/S40574-021-00298-1MaRDI QIDQ2072248zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Battistoni

Publication date 26 January 2022

Published in Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08512

zbMATH Keywords

discriminants number fields regulators upper bounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Units and factorization (11R27) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Abstract: An inequality proved firstly by Remak and then generalized by Friedman shows that there are only finitely many number fields with a fixed signature and whose regulator is less than a prescribed bound. Using this inequality, Astudillo, Diaz y Diaz, Friedman and Ramirez-Raposo succeeded to detect all fields with small regulators having degree less or equal than 7. In this paper we show that a certain upper bound for a suitable polynomial, if true, can improve Remak-Friedman's inequality and allows a classification for some signatures in degree 8 and better results in degree 5 and 7. The validity of the conjectured upper bound is extensively discussed.

Review text

Following Remak's remark in [\textit{R. Remak}, Compos. Math. 10, 245--285 (1952; Zbl 0047.27202)] that number fields with small regulators have small discriminants, and Friedman's generalization in [\textit{E. Friedman}, Invent. Math. 98, No. 3, 599--622 (1989; Zbl 0694.12006)], one can search all the number fields with a fixed signature and whose regulator is less than a prescribed bound. Exhaustive and partial results about this problem can be find in [\textit{S. Astudillo} et al., J. Number Theory 167, 232--258 (2016; Zbl 1415.11158)], where the authors give a list of fields with minimal or small regulators for degrees less than 7 -- except for the signature \((5,1)\) -- and a partial list for degrees 8 and 9. This paper completes those previous results in degree 8, and refines them in degree 5 and 7, following Friedman and Ramirez-Raposo's ideas found in [\textit{E. Friedman} and \textit{G. Ramirez-Raposo}, J. Number Theory 198, 381--385 (2019; Zbl 1429.11200)], where the upper bound in Remak-Friedman's inequality have been improved, allowing the two authors to solve the missing \((5,1)\)-signature case in degree 7. However, the list of the fields with small regulators given in the paper under review is based on conjectural upper bounds, the validity of those conjectures being extensively discussed by the author of the present paper, and corroborated by numerical experiments conducted on/with PARI/GP and the MATLAB Optimization Toolbox.

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