A lower bound for non-vanishing linear forms

Author(s):  
D. W. Masser
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Author(s):  
E. S. Barnes

Letbe n linear forms with real coefficients and determinant Δ = ∥ aij∥ ≠ 0; and denote by M(X) the lower bound of | X1X2 … Xn| over all integer sets (u) ≠ (0). It is well known that γn, the upper bound of M(X)/|Δ| over all sets of forms Xi, is finite, and the value of γn has been determined when n = 2 and n = 3.


2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-489
Author(s):  
XIANG GAO ◽  
SHENGYOU WEN

It is known that the Fourier–Stieltjes coefficients of a nonatomic coin-tossing measure may not vanish at infinity. However, we show that they could vanish at infinity along some integer subsequences, including the sequence ${\{b^{n}\}}_{n\geq 1}$ where $b$ is multiplicatively independent of 2 and the sequence given by the multiplicative semigroup generated by 3 and 5. The proof is based on elementary combinatorics and lower-bound estimates for linear forms in logarithms from transcendental number theory.


Author(s):  
Tapani Matala-aho

Given a sequence of linear forms in m ≥ 2 complex or p-adic numbers α1, …,αm ∈ Kv with appropriate growth conditions, Nesterenko proved a lower bound for the dimension d of the vector space Kα1 + ··· + Kαm over K, when K = Q and v is the infinite place. We shall generalize Nesterenko's dimension estimate over number fields K with appropriate places v, if the lower bound condition for |Rn| is replaced by the determinant condition. For the q-series approximations also a linear independence measure is given for the d linearly independent numbers. As an application we prove that the initial values F(t), F(qt), …, F(qm−1t) of the linear homogeneous q-functional equation where N = N(q, t), Pi = Pi(q, t) ∈ K[q, t] (i = 1, …, m), generate a vector space of dimension d ≥ 2 over K under some conditions for the coefficient polynomials, the solution F(t) and t, q ∈ K*.


Author(s):  
H. Davenport

Let L1, L2, L3 be three homogeneous linear forms in u, v, w with real coefficients and determinant 1. Let M denote the lower bound offor integral values of u, v, w, not all zero. I proved a few years ago (1) thatmore precisely, thatexcept when L1, L2, L3 are of a special type, in which case If we denote by θ, ø, ψ the roots of the cubic equation t3+t2-2t-1 = 0, the special linear forms are equivalent, by an integral unimodular linear transformation, to(in any order), where λ1,λ2,λ3 are real number whose product is In this case, L1L2L3|λ1λ2λ3 is a non-zero integer, and the minimum of its absolute value is 1, giving


2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
Andrzej Sładek

AbstractThe main goal of the paper is to examine the dimension of the vector space spanned by powers of linear forms. We also find a lower bound for the number of summands in the presentation of zero form as a sum of d-th powers of linear forms.


Isolation theorems for the minima of factorizable homogeneous ternary cubic forms and of indefinite ternary quadratic forms of a new strong type are proved. The problems whether there exist such forms with positive minima other than multiples of forms with integer coefficients are shown to be equivalent to problems in the geometry of numbers of a superficially different type. A contribution is made to the study of the problem whether there exist real <j>, ijr such that x(f>x—y | y[rx — z | has a positive lower bound for all integers x > 0, y , z . The methods used have wide validity.


1980 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 257-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Waldschmidt

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