Group Abstract Group Abstract

Message Boards Message Boards

0
|
4.7K Views
|
1 Reply
|
0 Total Likes
View groups...
Share
Share this post:

How to analyze obtained formulas for Heegner numbers?

Posted 3 years ago
  1. a) for the first four (smallest) Heegner numbers {1, 2, 3, 7} I came up with the formula:

a(n) = 1+((1 + sqrt(3))^(n-1) - (1 - sqrt(3))^(n-1))/(2*sqrt(3)) for n = 1,2,3,4

b) for the last (largest) four Heegner numbers {19, 43, 67, 163} I came up with the formula:

a(n) = 19+24((1 + sqrt(3))^(n-6) - (1 - sqrt(3))^(n-6))/(2sqrt(3)) for n = 6,7,8,9

c) for the fifth (in the middle) Heegner number {11} I came up with the formula:

a(n) = ((1 + sqrt(3))^n - (1 --sqrt(3))^n)/(2*sqrt(3))/4 for n=5

Note that all 3 above formulas contain an expression of the form:

((1 + sqrt(3))^(m) - (1 - sqrt(3))^(m))

Why?

Is there any way to combine above 3 formulas into one, which would cover all 9 Heegner numbers?

2.

On another note I came up with the following polynomial ratio where denominator is the 7th degree polynomial and numerator is the 2nd degree polynomial:

98577n^7 - 3380698n^6 + 47173986* n^5 - 344092600n^4 + 1400304333n^3 - 3131093242n^2 + 3515708244n - 1438921800)/(60(11449n^2 - 206831*n + 958662))

Above polynomial ratio being essentially of 5th degree gives all 9 Heegner numbers for n=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

So the question arises: why above 5th degree polynomial yields all 9 Heegner numbers?

Is there a connection between formulas described in 1. and polynomial ratio described in 2. ?

Thanks, Best regards, Alexander R. Povolotsky

Posted 3 years ago

I wonder if it is surprising that having 11 parameters (even though restricted to integers) is able to predict just 9 numbers.

I think there are an infinite number of solutions in the form

heegner = Sum[a[i] n^i, {i, 0, 7}]/Sum[b[i] n^i, {i, 0, 2}]

Even restricting b[0]=1 results in an infinite number of (integer) solutions.

heegner = Sum[a[i] n^i, {i, 0, 7}]/(1 + b[1] n + b[2] n^2)

Here's why:

h = {1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 19, 43, 67, 163};
eqs = Table[heegner == h[[n]], {n, 9}];
Solve[eqs, {a[0], a[1], a[2], a[3], a[4], a[5], a[6], a[7], b[1], b[2]}][[1]]

(* {a[1] -> 259357/113310 - (133241 a[0])/56655, 
 a[2] -> -(129957571/38072160) + (77650057 a[0])/38072160, 
 a[3] -> 62857861/25381440 - (22187567 a[0])/25381440, 
 a[4] -> -(3651985/3807216) + (764443 a[0])/3807216, 
 a[5] -> 2477971/12690720 - (105667 a[0])/4230240, 
 a[6] -> -(109057/5438880) + (8419 a[0])/5438880, 
 a[7] -> 2987/3625920 - (43 a[0])/1208640, 
 b[1] -> -(302783/634536) - (6631 a[0])/634536, 
 b[2] -> 29167/634536 + (863 a[0])/634536} *)

So we can choose any integer for a[0] and reproduce the Heegner numbers perfectly with rational coefficients. One of the choices reduces the numerator to a 6-th degree polynomial in n. That makes 9 parameters to predict 9 numbers.

POSTED BY: Jim Baldwin
Reply to this discussion
Community posts can be styled and formatted using the Markdown syntax.
Reply Preview
Attachments
Remove
or Discard