Journal of Number Theory ( IF 0.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jnt.2020.11.012 Timothy Ferguson
A basic problem in transcendental number theory is to determine the arithmetic properties of analytic functions of the form where the coefficients belong to an algebraic number field. In particular, one of the most basic problems is to determine if is algebraic or transcendental for non-zero algebraic arguments α. For example, if is a transcendental Mahler function, then under generic conditions is transcendental for all non-zero algebraic numbers with . Also, if is an E-function, then there exist algorithms which completely determine the arithmetic properties of for non-zero algebraic numbers α. In contrast to these and other algorithmic results, we construct three functions , , and with computable rational coefficients for which no algorithms exist that determine if , , or for integral . Our results are an application of an undecidable variant of the Collatz Problem due to Lehtonen [9].
中文翻译:
具有不可确定算术属性的整个函数
超越数论的一个基本问题是确定形式的解析函数的算术性质 系数在哪里 属于代数数域。特别是,最基本的问题之一是确定对于非零代数参数α,是代数或先验的。例如,如果 是先验的马勒函数,然后在一般条件下 对于所有非零代数来说都是超验的 。另外,如果是一个E函数,那么存在一些可以完全确定对于非零代数α。与这些和其他算法结果相反,我们构造了三个函数, 和 具有可计算的有理系数,没有可用于确定是否存在算法的算法 , , 要么 用于积分 。我们的结果是由于Lehtonen [9]导致的Collatz问题的一个不确定的变体的应用。