Dirichlet's Theorem in projective general linear groups and the Absolute Siegel's Lemma
| dc.contributor.advisor | Vaaler, Jeffrey D. | en |
| dc.creator | Pekker, Alexander | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-28T23:08:52Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2008-08-28T23:08:52Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation addresses two problems in diophantine number theory: (1) an analogue of classical Dirichlet’s Theorem in a projective general linear group over a local field and (2) a sharp bound on the conjugate products of successive minima in the geometry of numbers over the adeles. For the first problem, we show that if k is a local field and P GL(N, k) is endowed with a natural norm Φ, then unless A ∈ P GL(N, k) is conjugate to an isometry, the orbit of A, {A, A2 , . . .} is bounded away from the identity element 1N ; otherwise, we quantify min1≤m≤M Φ(Am) in terms of M. We use classical techniques for the case k = C and group-theoretic techniques for k nonarchimedean; as a side fact, we show that the maximal order of an element in P GL(N, Fq) is (q N − 1)/(q − 1). We also discuss a more general vii group-theoretic approach due to Vaaler that is suitable for any compact abelian group and apply it to P GL(N, k). For the second problem, let k be a number field, let A ∈ GL(N, kA) be an automorphism of the adeles kA, and let µn be the n-th absolute successive minimum of A. We show that for 1 ≤ n ≤ N, the conjugate proudct µn(A)µN−n+1(A∗ ) is bounded above by e (N−1)/2 where A∗ = (AT ) −1 is the dual of A. As a corollary, we deduce the (already known) Absolute Siegel’s Lemma, i.e., the fact that QN n=1 µn(A) ≤ e N(N−1)/4 . We use induction, a symmetric algebra argument due to Roy and Thunder, and new duality arguments to derive our results. | |
| dc.description.department | Mathematics | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.identifier | b65486973 | en |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 156912025 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2789 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Diophantine approximation | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Linear algebraic groups | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Abelian groups | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Algebraic fields | en |
| dc.title | Dirichlet's Theorem in projective general linear groups and the Absolute Siegel's Lemma | en |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Mathematics | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Mathematics | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |