Thank you all for the temporary solution to my problem arising from an
ambitious effort to understand Table 12.12 in David Cox's book Primes of
the form x^2+ny^2. As Prof Cremona has stated the existence of *only* four
perfect cubes on the imaginary axis is  to be discussed under an
appropriate topic head.

Sincerely

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 1:16 AM John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 5:00:07 PM UTC+1 kks wrote:
>
>> Yes, I knew the point regarding
>> >>
>> ndeed, there are 9 imaginary quadratic extensions of Q for which one
>> gets integer j-invariant, one of them
>> Q[sqrt(-163)], but as 163 mod 4 = 3, one has to compute its j-invariant as
>> ellj((1+sqrt(163)*I)/2)
>> getting -262537412640768000
>> <<
>> However on the boundary of the fundamental domain, my calculation shows
>> only j-invariants ( positive) which are perfect cubes as
>> Q(sqrt(-1)).....12^3
>> Q(sqrt(-2))......20^3
>> Q(sqrt(-4))......66^3
>> Q(sqrt(-7))......255^3
>> and the above almost integer. Are there any others on the Imaginary axis?
>>
>
> No. cm_j_invariants_and_orders(QQ) gives all 13 imaginry quadratic orders
> of class number 1, from which you can recover the 13 associated imaginary
> discriminants D.  Most of these are congruent to 1 mod 4 so the j-value is
> j((1+sqrt(d))/2) , only those which are 0 mod 4 are on the imaginary axis
> with values j(sqrt(D)/2) as in your list.
>
> THere is a big theory of complex multiplcation behind these facts, but I
> don'y think that "gp in Sage" is an accurate sub                       ject
> line for discussion about that.
>
> John Cremona
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 2:28 AM Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 9:24 AM Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 5:50 AM Surendran Karippadath
>>> > <kksin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > >      I evaluated the j-invariant in Pari/gp In SageMathCell
>>> > > ? \p 50
>>> > > ? ellj(sqrt(163.0)*I)
>>> > > %1 = 68925893036109279891085639286944512.000000000163739
>>> >
>>> > Sage has this function too (it calls Pari, so that's not an
>>> > independent confirmation that this number is (not) an integer:
>>> > sage: elliptic_j(sqrt(163)*I,prec=500)
>>> >
>>> 6.89258930361092798910856392869445120000000001637386442092346075751855217523117650690239250072955532985645916831850173541132959651401661828116253839333e34
>>> >
>>> > The output in Pari is a bit easier to read:
>>> >
>>> > ? \p 500
>>> > ? ellj(sqrt(163)*I)
>>> > %4 =
>>> 68925893036109279891085639286944512.00000000016373864420923460757518552[...]
>>> >
>>> > Is it one of these "almost integers" (unless it's a bug, and this
>>> > number must be an integer, I don't know  - number theorists, please
>>> > step forward!), such as
>>> > ? \p 500
>>> > ? exp(sqrt(163)*Pi)
>>> > %3 =
>>> 262537412640768743.99999999999925007259719818568887935385633733699086270[...]
>>> >
>>> > Or a bug in Pari/GP ?
>>>
>>> If I read the discussion  after Cor. 42 in
>>> http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/greenbj/papers/ramanujanconstant.pdf
>>> right, this is not an integer.
>>> Indeed, there are 9 imaginary quadratic extensions of Q for which one
>>> gets integer j-invariant, one of them
>>> Q[sqrt(-163)], but as 163 mod 4 = 3, one has to compute its j-invariant
>>> as
>>> ellj((1+sqrt(163)*I)/2)
>>> getting -262537412640768000
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > Furthermore the Cube-root of the j-invariant I obtained
>>> > > ? (ellj(sqrt(163.0)*I))^(1/3)
>>> > > %2 = 410009702400.00077461269365317226812447191214259043
>>> >
>>> > the closest integer to (ellj(sqrt(163.0)*I))^(1/3) is 410009702400,
>>> > and so you can check
>>> > that its cube is quite far from ellj(sqrt(163)*I)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > Is it possible to check in Sage with High Precision if the values
>>> are Integers.
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanking you in advance
>>> > >
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