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Effective multiplicative independence of 3 singular moduli

Number Theory 2026-05-27 v4

Abstract

Pila and Tsimerman proved in 2017 that for every kk there exists at most finitely many kk-tuples (x1,,xk)(x_1,\ldots, x_k) of distinct non-zero singular moduli with the property "x1,,xkx_1, \ldots,x_k are multiplicatively dependent, but any proper subset of them is multiplicatively independent". The proof was non-effective, using Siegel's lower bound for the Class Number. In 2019 Riffaut obtained an effective version of this result for k=2k=2. Moreover, he determined all the instances of xmynQ×x^my^n\in \mathbb Q^\times, where x,yx,y are distinct singular moduli and m,nm,n non-zero integers. In this article we obtain a similar result for k=3k=3. We show that xmynzrQ×x^my^nz^r\in \mathbb Q^\times (where x,y,zx,y,z are distinct singular moduli and m,n,rm,n,r non-zero integers) implies that the discriminants of x,y,zx,y,z do not exceed 101010^{10}.

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@article{arxiv.2207.05183,
  title  = {Effective multiplicative independence of 3 singular moduli},
  author = {Yuri Bilu and Sanoli Gun and Emanuele Tron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05183},
  year   = {2026}
}

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To appear in Algebra and Number Theory

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