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Irrationality of finite logarithms in a congruence-class ad\`ele ring

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arxiv 2607.27774 v1 pith:SNE6PSGA submitted 2026-07-30 math.NT

classification math.NT
keywords finitelogarithmsmathcalringcannotconjecturefermatnon-zero
open problems The abc Conjecture
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Finite logarithms of non-zero rational numbers can be defined in the "poor man's ad\`{e}le ring" ${\mathcal A}$ by Fermat quotients modulo sufficiently large primes. This ring contains $\mathbb{Q}$ and outside trivial cases, Matsusaka and Seki have shown that finite logarithms cannot take non-zero rational values in ${\mathcal A}$. Furthermore, a theorem of Silverman shows they are not zero, assuming the $abc$-conjecture. We extend these results to primes restricted to arithmetic progressions of the form $p\equiv 1\bmod m$ by relating Fermat quotients to values of cyclotomic polynomials and their logarithmic derivatives. As an application we show that, subject to the $abc$-conjecture, finite logarithms cannot be quadratic irrational in ${\mathcal A}$ in an appropriate sense.

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