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On monic abelian cubics

Part of: Algebraic number theory: global fields Arithmetic algebraic geometry Forms and linear algebraic groups Polynomials and matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2022

Stanley Yao Xiao
Stanley Yao Xiao*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Bahen Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2E4 syxiao@math.toronto.edu
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Abstract

In this paper, we prove the assertion that the number of monic cubic polynomials $F(x) = x^3 + a_2 x^2 + a_1 x + a_0$ with integer coefficients and irreducible, Galois over ${\mathbb {Q}}$ satisfying $\max \{|a_2|, |a_1|, |a_0|\} \leq X$ is bounded from above by $O(X (\log X)^2)$. We also count the number of abelian monic binary cubic forms with integer coefficients up to a natural equivalence relation ordered by the so-called Bhargava–Shankar height. Finally, we prove an assertion characterizing the splitting field of 2-torsion points of semi-stable abelian elliptic curves.

Keywords

Galois theorycubic polynomials

MSC classification

Primary: 11R32: Galois theory
Secondary: 11R45: Density theorems 11C08: Polynomials 11E76: Forms of degree higher than two 11G05: Elliptic curves over global fields

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Research Article
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Compositio Mathematica , Volume 158 , Issue 3 , March 2022 , pp. 550 - 567
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Footnotes

The author thanks S. Chow for several important discussions which contributed enormously to the paper, and M. Widmer for some helpful comments.

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