2 papers
math.NT2026
The Minimal Degree of Salem Numbers with Negative Trace
Subham Roy, Pavlo Yatsyna
We show that the minimal degree of a Salem number with prescribed negative trace is bounded below by and above by , up to explicit constants and lower-order…
math.NT2025
Random walks through the areal Mahler measure: steps in the complex plane
Matilde N. LalÃn, Siva Sankar Nair, Berend Ringeling +1
We study the areal Mahler measure of the two-variable, -parameter family and prove explicit formulas that demonstrate its relation to the standard Mahler measure of thes…