Abstract

In this thesis, we extend results of Emerald Stacy to compute an upper bound on the minimal height of a totally p-adic algebraic integer of degree 4 independent of p. We also compute actual values of the minimal height of a totally p-adic algebraic integer of degree 4 for small primes p.

Degree

MS

College and Department

Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Mathematics

Rights

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Date Submitted

2021-12-09

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd11957

Keywords

totally p-adic, algebraic numbers, logarithmic height, number fields

Language

english

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