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Secondary terms in the counting functions of quartic fields

Number Theory 2025-08-13 v2

Abstract

We prove that the smoothed counting function of the set of quartic fields, satisfying any finite set of local conditions, can be written as a linear combination of X,X5/6logX,X5/6X,X^{5/6}\log X,X^{5/6}, upto an error term of O(X13/16+o(1))O(X^{13/16+o(1)}). For certain sets of local conditions, namely, those cutting out ``S4S_4-families'' of quartic fields, we explicitly determine the leading constants of the secondary terms. We moreover express these constants in terms of secondary mass formulas associated to families of quartic fields

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@article{arxiv.2503.02381,
  title  = {Secondary terms in the counting functions of quartic fields},
  author = {Arul Shankar and Jacob Tsimerman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.02381},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Minor issues resolved. 51 pages, comments welcome!

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