Slicing the stars: counting algebraic numbers, integers, and units by degree and height

DOI10.2140/ANT.2017.11.1385MaRDI QIDQ2399261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert Grizzard, Joseph Gunther

Publication date 22 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08720

zbMATH Keywords

geometry of numbersheightMahler measurearithmetic statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heights (11G50) Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Lattice points in specified regions (11P21) PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure (11R06) Asymptotic results on counting functions for algebraic and topological structures (11N45) Nonconvex bodies (11H16)

Abstract: Masser and Vaaler have given an asymptotic formula for the number of algebraic numbers of given degree $d$ and increasing height. This problem was solved by counting lattice points (which correspond to minimal polynomials over $mathbbZ$) in a homogeneously expanding star body in $mathbb{R}^{d+1}$. The volume of this star body was computed by Chern and Vaaler, who also computed the volume of the codimension-one "slice" corresponding to monic polynomials -- this led to results of Barroero on counting algebraic integers. We show how to estimate the volume of higher-codimension slices, which allows us to count units, algebraic integers of given norm, trace, norm and trace, and more. We also refine the lattice point-counting arguments of Chern-Vaaler to obtain explicit error terms with better power savings, which lead to explicit versions of some results of Masser-Vaaler and Barroero.

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