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Main Authors: Pelizzari, Giulia, Punch, James
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05966
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author Pelizzari, Giulia
Punch, James
author_facet Pelizzari, Giulia
Punch, James
contents In 1887, Minkowski determined the least common multiple of the orders of all finite subgroups of $GL_n(\mathbb{Q})$; we refer to this number as $M(n)$. In (Katznelson, 1994), Katznelson provides the asymptotic behaviour of $M(n)$, with a small error term. In this paper, we use elementary techniques to find explicit upper and lower bounds on $M(n)$ that improve on Katznelson's results; we also recover his asymptotic result. Our results immediately imply explicit bounds on functions closely related to $M(n)$, which appear in the study of abelian varieties (see, for example, (Silverberg, 1992), (Guralnick and Kedlaya, 2017) and (Ozeki, 2024)). Finally, we examine the function $Φ(n)$, which also appears in (Ozeki, 2024), defined as the greatest positive integer $m$ for which $φ(m)$ divides $2n$. We provide explicit upper bounds on $Φ(n)$.
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spellingShingle Bounds on the Minkowski constants and a function involving $φ$
Pelizzari, Giulia
Punch, James
Number Theory
11N45, 11G10
In 1887, Minkowski determined the least common multiple of the orders of all finite subgroups of $GL_n(\mathbb{Q})$; we refer to this number as $M(n)$. In (Katznelson, 1994), Katznelson provides the asymptotic behaviour of $M(n)$, with a small error term. In this paper, we use elementary techniques to find explicit upper and lower bounds on $M(n)$ that improve on Katznelson's results; we also recover his asymptotic result. Our results immediately imply explicit bounds on functions closely related to $M(n)$, which appear in the study of abelian varieties (see, for example, (Silverberg, 1992), (Guralnick and Kedlaya, 2017) and (Ozeki, 2024)). Finally, we examine the function $Φ(n)$, which also appears in (Ozeki, 2024), defined as the greatest positive integer $m$ for which $φ(m)$ divides $2n$. We provide explicit upper bounds on $Φ(n)$.
title Bounds on the Minkowski constants and a function involving $φ$
topic Number Theory
11N45, 11G10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05966