The logarithmic ℓ¹ ball #
The closed ℓ¹ unit ball in the logarithmic space of a number field is a compact, symmetric,
convex neighborhood of zero. Its gauge is the sum of the absolute values of the coordinates,
and its volume in unit rank r is 2 ^ r / r!, including rank zero.
Together with the height comparison for the logarithmic embedding, this ball lets geometry of
numbers produce fundamental units with a bounded product of heights. The norm on Mathlib's
logSpace is the supremum norm, so this ball is not its metric unit ball. We use the
finite-coordinate ball TauCeti.l1Ball for its geometry, gauge and product volume.
References #
- Y. Bugeaud and K. Győry, Bounds for the solutions of unit equations, Acta Arith. 74 (1996), 67–80, §3, Lemma 1.
The closed ℓ¹ unit ball in the logarithmic space of a number field.
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Membership in the logarithmic ball is the ℓ¹ bound on the coordinates.
The logarithmic ball is the ℓ¹ unit ball on the coordinates away from w₀.
The logarithmic ball is convex.
The logarithmic ball is symmetric about zero.
The logarithmic ball is compact, also when the unit rank is zero.
The logarithmic ball is closed.
The logarithmic ball is bounded in the supremum norm on logSpace K.
Zero is an interior point of the logarithmic ball.
The logarithmic ball absorbs every vector in the logarithmic space.
The gauge of the logarithmic ball is the ℓ¹ norm, rather than the ambient supremum norm.
The logarithmic ball has volume 2 ^ r / r! in unit rank r. In rank zero its volume is
one, the volume of the whole zero-dimensional logarithmic space.