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ON DISCRIMINANTS OF MINIMAL POLYNOMIALS OF THE RAMANUJAN $t_n$ CLASS INVARIANTS

Part of: Discontinuous groups and automorphic forms Arithmetic algebraic geometry Algebraic number theory: global fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2023

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SARTH CHAVAN*
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Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We study the discriminants of the minimal polynomials $\mathcal {P}_n$ of the Ramanujan $t_n$ class invariants, which are defined for positive $n\equiv 11\pmod {24}$. We show that $\Delta (\mathcal {P}_n)$ divides $\Delta (H_n)$, where $H_n$ is the ring class polynomial, with quotient a perfect square and determine the sign of $\Delta (\mathcal {P}_n)$ based on the ideal class group structure of the order of discriminant $-n$. We also show that the discriminant of the number field generated by $j({(-1+\sqrt {-n})}/{2})$, where j is the j-invariant, divides $\Delta (\mathcal {P}_n)$. Moreover, using Ye’s computation of $\log|\Delta(H_n)|$ [‘Revisiting the Gross–Zagier discriminant formula’, Math. Nachr. 293 (2020), 1801–1826], we show that 3 never divides $\Delta(H_n)$, and thus $\Delta(\mathcal{P}_n)$, for all squarefree $n\equiv11\pmod{24}$.

Keywords

elliptic curvesring class polynomialsclass invariantj-invariantdiscriminant

MSC classification

Primary: 11R29: Class numbers, class groups, discriminants
Secondary: 11F03: Modular and automorphic functions 11G07: Elliptic curves over local fields 11R09: Polynomials (irreducibility, etc.) 11R37: Class field theory
Type
Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 108 , Issue 2 , October 2023 , pp. 264 - 275
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

The author was supported by The 2022 Spirit of Ramanujan Fellowship and The 2022 Mehta Fellowship.

Dedicated to all my Rickoid friends who turned into a family

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