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Solutions by radicals at singular values k_N from new class invariants for N \equiv 3 mod 8

Mathematical Physics 2008-07-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

For square-free N3N\equiv3 mod 8 and NN coprime to 3, I show how to reduce the singular value kNk_N to radicals, using a novel pair [f,g][f,g] of real numbers that are algebraic integers of the Hilbert class field of Q(N)Q(\sqrt{-N}). One is a class invariant of modular level 48, with a growth g=α(N)exp(πN/48)+o(1)g=\alpha(N)\exp(\pi\sqrt{N}/48)+o(1), where α(N)[2,2]\alpha(N)\in[-\sqrt2,\sqrt2] is uniquely determined by the residue of NN modulo 64. Hence gg is a very economical generator of the class field. For prime N3N\equiv3 mod 4, I conjecture that the Chowla--Selberg formula provides an algebraic {\em unit} of the class field and determine its minimal polynomial for the 155 cases with N<2000N<2000. For N=2317723, with class number h(N)=105h(-N)=105, I compute the minimal polynomial of gg in 90 milliseconds. Its height is smaller than the {\em cube} root of the height of the generating polynomial found by the double eta-quotient method of {\em Pari-GP}. I reduce the complete elliptic integral K2317723K_{2317723} to radicals and values of the Γ\Gamma function, by determining the Chowla--Selberg unit and solving the septic, quintic and cubic equations that generate sub-fields of the class field. I conclude that the residue 3 modulo 8, initially discarded in elliptic curve primality proving, outperforms the residue 7.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2976,
  title  = {Solutions by radicals at singular values k_N from new class invariants for N \equiv 3 mod 8},
  author = {David Broadhurst},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2976},
  year   = {2008}
}

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15 pages, appendix added; more scholarly references