Introduction to Algebraic Independence Theory
In the last five years there has been very significant progress in the development of transcendence theory. A new approach to the arithmetic properties of values of modular forms and theta-functions was found. The solution of the Mahler-Manin problem on v
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Yuri V. Nesterenko Patrice Philippon (Eds.)
Introduction to Algebraic Independence Theory With contributions from: F. Amoroso, D. Bertrand, W.D. Brownawell, G. Diaz, M. Laurent, Yu.V. Nesterenko, K. Nishioka, P. Philippon, G. Rémond, D. Roy, M. Waldschmidt
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Editors Yuri V. Nesterenko Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics Moscow University 119899 Moscow, Russia
Patrice Philippon Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu UMR 7586 du CNRS 4, place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Preface
In the last five years there was an essential progress in the development of the of transcendental numbers. A new approach to the arithmetic properties of
theory
values of modular forms and theta-functions time there
was a
It states that the modular function
point
-r
of the
irrationalities.
was
found. First and up to a recent 1941 by Th. Schneider.
unique result of this type established in
j(-r)
has transcendental values at any algebraic from the imaginary quadratic
complex upper-half plane, distinct
It is well known that the value of the modular function at any -r with Imr > 0, is an algebraic number.
imaginary quadratic argument In
1995, K. Barr6-Sirieix, G. Diaz, F. Gramain and G. Philibert proved that the
J(z), connected to j(-r) by the relation j(T) J(e 2"ir), at any algebraic point z of the unit disk is transcendental. In 1969, this assertion was proposed by K. Mahler as a conjecture. The proof rests heavily on the functional modular equations connecting the functions J(z) and J(z') over C for any natural number n. Simultaneously the p-adic analogue of this theorem (conjecture formulated by Yu. Manin, 1971) was proved and it has important consequences in the theory of algebraic numbers. value of the function
=
non-zero
The solution
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