Problems and results on determinants involving Legendre symbols

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العنوان: Problems and results on determinants involving Legendre symbols
المؤلفون: Sun, Zhi-Wei
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Number Theory, 11A15, 11C20, 15A15
الوصف: In this paper we investigate determinants whose entries are linear combinations of Legendre symbols. We deduce some new results in this direction; for example, we prove that for any prime $p\equiv3\pmod4$ we have $$\det\left[x+\left(\frac{j-k}p\right)+\left(\frac jp\right)-\left(\frac kp\right)\right]_{0\le j,k\le(p-1)/2}=4,$$ where $(\frac{\cdot}p)$ is the Legendre symbol. We also pose many conjectures for further research. For example, for any prime $p>3$ we conjecture that \begin{align*}&\ \det\left[\left(\frac{j+k}p\right)+\left(\frac{j-k}p\right)+\left(\frac{jk}p\right)\right]_{1\le j,k\le(p-1)/2} \\=&\ \begin{cases}(\frac 2p)p^{(p-5)/4}&\text{if}\ p\equiv1\pmod4, \\(-1)^{(h(-p)-1)/2}(1-(2-(\frac 2p))h(-p))p^{(p-3)/4}&\text{if}\ p\equiv3\pmod4, \end{cases}\end{align*} where $h(-p)$ is the class number of the imaginary quadratic field $\mathbb Q(\sqrt{-p})$.
Comment: 24 pages. Refined version with typos corrected
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03626
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2405.03626
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv