Separating singular moduli and the primitive element problem

DOI10.1093/QMATHJ/HAAA030MaRDI QIDQ5147312zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuri Bilu, Bernadette Faye, Huilin Zhu

Publication date 3 February 2021

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07126

zbMATH Keywords

discriminantprimitive element problemsingular moduli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex multiplication and moduli of abelian varieties (11G15) [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MSC%2011G30%20%22Curves+of+arbitrary+genus+or+genus+%28%0D%0Ae+1%29+over+global+fields%22 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72)

Abstract: We prove that $|x-y|ge800X^{-4}$, where $x$ and $y$ are distinct singular moduli of discriminants not exceeding $X$. We apply this result to the "primitive element problem" for two singular moduli. In a previous article Faye and Riffaut show that the number field $mathbbQ(x,y)$, generated by two singular moduli $x$ and $y$, is generated by $x-y$ and, with some exceptions, by $x+y$ as well. In this article we fix a rational number $alphae0,pm1$ and show that the field $mathbbQ(x,y)$ is generated by $x+alphay$, with a few exceptions occurring when $x$ and $y$ generate the same quadratic field over $mathbbQ$. Together with the above-mentioned result of Faye and Riffaut, this gives a drastic generalization of a theorem due to Allombert et al. (2015) about solution of linear equations in singular moduli.

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