Number fields without small generators

作者:Vaaler Jeffrey D*; Widmer Martin
来源:Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2015, 159(3): 379-385.
DOI:10.1017/S0305004115000298

摘要

Let D > 1 be an integer, and let b = b(D) > 1 be its smallest divisor. We show that there are infinitely many number fields of degree D whose primitive elements all have relatively large height in terms of b, D and the discriminant of the number field. This provides a negative answer to a question of W. Ruppert from 1998 in the case when D is composite. Conditional on a very weak form of a folk conjecture about the distribution of number fields, we negatively answer Ruppert's question for all D > 3.

  • 出版日期2015-11