Elsevier

Journal of Number Theory

Volume 228, November 2021, Pages 276-293
Journal of Number Theory

General Section
Geometry of biquadratic and cyclic cubic log-unit lattices

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Abstract

By Dirichlet's Unit Theorem, under the log embedding the units in the ring of integers of a number field form a lattice, called the log-unit lattice. We investigate the geometry of these lattices when the number field is a biquadratic or cyclic cubic extension of Q. In the biquadratic case, we determine when the log-unit lattice is orthogonal. In the cyclic cubic case, we show that the log-unit lattice is always equilateral triangular.

Keywords

Units in number fields
Lattices
Log embedding

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