Torsion of the Witt group
This article continues a previous paper by the authors. Here and there, the two power series F(z) and G(z), first introduced by Dilcher and Stolarsky and related to the so-called Stern polynomials, are studied analytically and arithmetically. More precisely, it is shown that the function field ℂ(z)(F(z),F(z⁴),G(z),G(z⁴)) has transcendence degree 3 over ℂ(z). This main result contains the algebraic independence over ℂ(z) of G(z) and G(z⁴), as well as that of F(z) and F(z⁴). The first statement is...
In this paper we investigate Hesse’s elliptic curves , and construct their twists, over quadratic fields, and over the Galois closures of cubic fields. We also show that is a twist of over the related cubic field when the quadratic field is contained in the Galois closure of the cubic field. We utilize a cubic polynomial, , to parametrize all of quadratic fields and cubic ones. It should be noted that is a twist of as algebraic curves because it may not always have any rational points...
A (monic) polynomial is called intersective if the congruence mod has a solution for all positive integers . Call nontrivially intersective if it is intersective and has no rational root. It was proved by the author that every finite noncyclic solvable group can be realized as the Galois group over of a nontrivially intersective polynomial (noncyclic is a necessary condition). Our first remark is the observation that the corresponding result for nonsolvable reduces to the ordinary...