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Comments on the height reducing property II

Number Theory 2015-01-23 v1

Abstract

A complex number α\alpha is said to satisfy the height reducing property if there is a finite set FZF\subset \mathbb{Z} such that Z[α]=F[α]\mathbb{Z}[\alpha]=F[\alpha], where Z\mathbb{Z} is the ring of the rational integers. It is easy to see that α\alpha is an algebraic number when it satisfies the height reducing property. We prove the relation Card(F)max{2,Mα(0)},\operatorname{Card}(F)\geq \max\{2,\left\vert M_{\alpha}(0)\right\vert \}, where MαM_{\alpha} is the minimal polynomial of α\alpha over the field of the rational numbers, and discuss the related optimal cases, for some classes of algebraic numbers α\alpha. In addition, we show that there is an algorithm to determine the minimal height polynomial of a given algebraic number, provided it has no conjugate of modulus one.

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@article{arxiv.1403.7480,
  title  = {Comments on the height reducing property II},
  author = {Shigeki Akiyama and Jörg M. Thuswaldner and Toufik Zaïmi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.7480},
  year   = {2015}
}
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