Angles of Gaussian primes
Seminar
Speaker
Zeev Rudnick, Tel-Aviv University
Date
29/04/2018 - 13:00 - 12:00Add to Calendar
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Angles of Gaussian primes
Fermat showed that every prime p = 1 mod 4 is a sum of two squares: $p = a^2 + b^2$, and hence such a prime gives rise to an angle whose tangent is the ratio $b/a$. Do these angles exhibit order or randomness? I will discuss the statistics of these angles and present a conjecture, motivated by a random matrix model and by function field considerations.
Mathematics Colloquium Room 201, Building 216
אוניברסיטת בר-אילן - Department of Mathematics
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Asia/Jerusalem
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Place
Mathematics Colloquium Room 201, Building 216
Abstract
Fermat showed that every prime p = 1 mod 4 is a sum of two squares: $p = a^2 + b^2$, and hence such a prime gives rise to an angle whose tangent is the ratio $b/a$. Do these angles exhibit order or randomness? I will discuss the statistics of these angles and present a conjecture, motivated by a random matrix model and by function field considerations.
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