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Height of flat tori

Author(s): Patrick Chiu
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 723-730.
MSC (1991): Primary 11M36; Secondary 11F20, 11E45, 11H50, 11H55
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Abstract: Relations between the height and the determinant of the Laplacian on the space of $n$-dimensional flat tori and the classical formulas of Kronecker and Epstein are established. Extrema of the height are shown to exist, and results for a global minimum for 2-d tori and a local minimum for 3-d tori are given, along with more general conjectures of Sarnak and Rankin.

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Patrick Chiu
Affiliation: P.O. Box 7486, Palo Alto, California 94309

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03872-0
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03872-0
Received by editor(s): October 15, 1995
Communicated by: Dennis A. Hejhal
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society

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