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Solutions of diophantine equations as periodic points of $p$-adic algebraic functions, III

Number Theory 2020-05-22 v1

Abstract

All the periodic points of a certain algebraic function related to the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction r(τ)r(\tau) are determined. They turn out to be 0,1±520, \frac{-1 \pm \sqrt{5}}{2}, and the conjugates over Q\mathbb{Q} of the values r(wd/5)r(w_d/5), where wdw_d is one of a specific set of algebraic integers, divisible by the square of a prime divisor of 5, in the field Kd=Q(d)K_d=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-d}), as d-d ranges over all negative quadratic discriminants for which (d5)=+1\left(\frac{-d}{5}\right) = +1. This yields new insights on class numbers of orders in the fields KdK_d. Conjecture 1 of Part I is proved for the prime p=5p=5, showing that the ring class fields over fields of type KdK_d whose conductors are relatively prime to 55 coincide with the fields generated over Q\mathbb{Q} by the periodic points (excluding -1) of a fixed 55-adic algebraic function.

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@article{arxiv.2005.10377,
  title  = {Solutions of diophantine equations as periodic points of $p$-adic algebraic functions, III},
  author = {Patrick Morton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.10377},
  year   = {2020}
}

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