Minkowski improvement conjecture for ideal classes in totally real fields

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Fix an integer d≥3d \geq 3. For a totally real number field KK of degree dd, let disc⁡(K)\operatorname{disc}(K) denote its discriminant, and let an ideal class mean a class of fractional ideals of the maximal order OK\mathscr{O}_K. Minkowski improvement conjecture. Every ideal class in a totally real number field of degree dd has a representative ideal J⊂OKJ \subset \mathscr{O}_K whose norm satisfies

N(J)=o ⁣(disc⁡(K)).N(J)=o\!\left(\sqrt{\operatorname{disc}(K)}\right).

This would sharpen Minkowski's bound N(J)=O(disc⁡(K))N(J)=O(\sqrt{\operatorname{disc}(K)}) uniformly for fixed degree; the source presents it as conjectural and gives no resolution.

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Manfred Einsiedler, Elon Lindenstrauss, Philippe Michel and Akshay Venkatesh, “The distribution of periodic torus orbits on homogeneous spaces”, arXiv:math/0607815 (2006).

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