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Simultaneous $p$-orderings and minimising volumes in number fields

Number Theory 2016-11-24 v3

Abstract

In the paper "On the interpolation of integer-valued polynomials" (Journal of Number Theory 133 (2013), pp. 4224--4232.) V. Volkov and F. Petrov consider the problem of existence of the so-called nn-universal sets (related to simultaneous pp-orderings of Bhargava) in the ring of Gaussian integers. We extend their results to arbitrary imaginary quadratic number fields and prove an existence theorem that provides a strong counterexample to a conjecture of Volkov-Petrov on minimal cardinality of nn-universal sets. Along the way, we discover a link with Euler-Kronecker constants and prove a lower bound on Euler-Kronecker constants which is of the same order of magnitude as the one obtained by Ihara.

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@article{arxiv.1506.02696,
  title  = {Simultaneous $p$-orderings and minimising volumes in number fields},
  author = {Jakub Byszewski and Mikołaj Frączyk and Anna Szumowicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02696},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

new version, substantial corrections in section 6, will appear in Journal of Number Theory