Minimum essentiel et degrés d'obstruction des translatés de sous-tores
1. Introduction. Dans un article célèbre, D. H. Lehmer posait la question suivante (voir [Le], §13, page 476): «The following problem arises immediately. If ε is a positive quantity, to find a polynomial of the form: where the a’s are integers, such that the absolute value of the product of those roots of f which lie outside the unit circle, lies between 1 and 1 + ε (...). Whether or not the problem has a solution for ε < 0.176 we do not know.» Cette question, toujours ouverte, est la source...
Let be a discrete valuation ring of mixed characteristics , with residue field . Using work of Sekiguchi and Suwa, we construct some finite flat -models of the group scheme of -th roots of unity, which we call Kummer group schemes. We carefully set out the general framework and algebraic properties of this construction. When is perfect and is a complete totally ramified extension of the ring of Witt vectors , we provide a parallel study of the Breuil-Kisin modules of finite flat models...
We prove a rigidity theorem for semiarithmetic Fuchsian groups: If Γ₁, Γ₂ are two semiarithmetic lattices in PSL(2,ℝ ) virtually admitting modular embeddings, and f: Γ₁ → Γ₂ is a group isomorphism that respects the notion of congruence subgroups, then f is induced by an inner automorphism of PGL(2,ℝ ).
We identify the weight four newform of a modular Calabi-Yau manifold studied by Hulek and Verrill. The main obstacle is that this Calabi-Yau manifold is not rigid and has bad reduction at prime 13. Replacing the original fiber product of elliptic fibrations with a fiberwise Kummer construction we reduce the problem to studying the modularity of a rigid Calabi-Yau manifold with good reduction at primes p ≥ 5.