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A Minkowski-type theorem on distances to cusps: the class number one case

Number Theory 2025-07-22 v1

Abstract

In the study of Euclidean lattices, the product of the successive minima is bounded from above and below by explicit quantities. This result is known as Minkowski's second theorem, and can be refined to include Hermite's constant in the upper bound, which measures how short a non-zero vector can be in a given lattice. A version of this result exists in the context of number fields, where lattices are replaced with rigid adelic spaces, and successive minima with the Roy--Thunder minima. In this paper, drawing on the analogy between rank 22 Euclidean lattices and points in H\mathbb{H}, we will see an analogy between 22-dimensional rigid adelic spaces and points in Hn\mathbb{H}^n, and use that to translate the Minkowski-type theorem on Roy--Thunder minima into a theorem on the distances to cusps in Hn\mathbb{H}^n.

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@article{arxiv.2507.14617,
  title  = {A Minkowski-type theorem on distances to cusps: the class number one case},
  author = {Mathieu Dutour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.14617},
  year   = {2025}
}
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