Small sums of five roots of unity

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12826MaRDI QIDQ6096837zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ben Barber

Publication date 15 September 2023

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.15057

zbMATH Keywords

sum of roots of unity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diophantine inequalities (11J25)

Abstract: Motivated by questions in number theory, Myerson asked how small the sum of 5 complex nth roots of unity can be. We obtain a uniform bound of O(n^{-4/3}) by perturbing the vertices of a regular pentagon, improving to O(n^{-7/3}) infinitely often. The corresponding configurations were suggested by examining exact minimum values computed for n <= 221000. These minima can be explained at least in part by selection of the best example from multiple families of competing configurations related to close rational approximations.

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