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THE ABSOLUTE $\boldsymbol {S_k}$-MEASURE OF TOTALLY POSITIVE ALGEBRAIC INTEGERS

Part of: Computational number theory Polynomials and matrices Algebraic number theory: global fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2022

CONG WANG Open the ORCID record for CONG WANG [Opens in a new window] ,
XIAOJUAN PANG Open the ORCID record for XIAOJUAN PANG [Opens in a new window]  and
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CONG WANG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Southwest University of China, 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei 400715, Chongqing, China e-mail: wangcong.swu@foxmail.com
XIAOJUAN PANG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Southwest University of China, 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei 400715, Chongqing, China e-mail: xiaojuan.pang@foxmail.com
QIANG WU*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Southwest University of China, 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei 400715, Chongqing, China
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e-mail: qiangwu@swu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Let $\alpha $ be a totally positive algebraic integer of degree d, with conjugates $\alpha _1=\alpha , \alpha _2, \ldots , \alpha _d$ . The absolute $S_k$ -measure of $\alpha $ is defined by $s_k(\alpha )= d^{-1} \sum _{i=1}^{d}\alpha _i^k$ . We compute the lower bounds $\upsilon _k$ of $s_k(\alpha )$ for each integer in the range $2\leq k \leq 15$ and give a conjecture on the results for integers $k>15$ . Then we derive the lower bounds of $s_k(\alpha )$ for all real numbers $k>2$ . Our computation is based on an improvement in the application of the LLL algorithm and analysis of the polynomials in the explicit auxiliary functions.

Keywords

Sk-measuretotally positive algebraic integerexplicit auxiliary functionLLL algorithmsemi-infinite linear programming

MSC classification

Primary: 11R06: PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure
Secondary: 11C08: Polynomials 11Y40: Algebraic number theory computations
Type
Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 107 , Issue 2 , April 2023 , pp. 239 - 249
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 12071375).

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