Infinitude of Wall–Sun–Sun primes: infinite_isWallSunSunPrime_of_disc_eq
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Statement
Let be a real quadratic field of discriminant and let be a fundamental unit of . Following [EJ10, Remark 2.2.8], an odd prime is a Wall–Sun–Sun prime for if, in , when , and when . Both exponents are even, so the condition does not depend on the choice of , and it is equivalent to asking the same congruence for every unit of . For and these are the classical Wall–Sun–Sun primes other than and [EJ10, Proposition 2.2.6].
It is conjectured that for every fundamental discriminant there are infinitely many Wall–Sun–Sun primes with discriminant (Wikipedia; [EJ10, §4.1] gives the heuristic for ). It is stated here for only. Wikipedia's sentence also covers , but [EJ10] gives the definition above only for real quadratic fields, and its literal extension to imaginary quadratic fields is degenerate: there every unit is a root of unity of order dividing or , and that order divides the relevant exponent or for every odd prime .
Lean statement
theorem infinite_isWallSunSunPrime_of_disc_eq {K : Type*} [Field K] [NumberField K]
[IsQuadraticExtension ℚ K] [IsTotallyReal K] {D : ℤ} (hD : discr K = D) :
{p : ℕ | p.Prime ∧ Odd p ∧ ¬ (p : ℤ) ∣ D ∧ ∀ ε : (𝓞 K)ˣ,
(p : 𝓞 K) ^ 2 ∣ (ε : 𝓞 K) ^ (if J(D | p) = 1 then p - 1 else 2 * p + 2) - 1}.Infinite := by
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Tagged category research open in google-deepmind/formal-conjectures at commit a64e959c32c2. Definitions used by the statement are in FormalConjectures/Wikipedia/WallSunSun.lean.
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