Abstract
AbstractBy analogy with the trace of an algebraic integer
$\alpha $
with conjugates
$\alpha _1=\alpha , \ldots , \alpha _d$
, we define the G-measure
$ {\mathrm {G}} (\alpha )= \sum _{i=1}^d ( |\alpha _i| + 1/ | \alpha _i | )$
and the absolute
${\mathrm G}$
-measure
${\mathrm {g}}(\alpha )={\mathrm {G}}(\alpha )/d$
. We establish an analogue of the Schur–Siegel–Smyth trace problem for totally positive algebraic integers. Then we consider the case where
$\alpha $
has all its conjugates in a sector
$| \arg z | \leq \theta $
,
$0 < \theta < 90^{\circ }$
. We compute the greatest lower bound
$c(\theta )$
of the absolute G-measure of
$\alpha $
, for
$\alpha $
belonging to
$11$
consecutive subintervals of
$]0, 90 [$
. This phenomenon appears here for the first time, conforming to a conjecture of Rhin and Smyth on the nature of the function
$c(\theta )$
. All computations are done by the method of explicit auxiliary functions.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)