#### Vol. 8, No. 2, 2019

 Recent Issues Volume 8, Issue 2 Volume 8, Issue 1
 The Journal About the Journal Subscriptions Editorial Board Submission Guidelines Submission Form Ethics Statement To Appear Editorial Login Contacts ISSN (electronic): 2640-7361 ISSN (print): 2220-5438 founded and published with the scientific support and advice of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Other MSP Journals
The Lind–Lehmer Constant for $\mathbb{Z}_2^r \times \mathbb{Z}_4^s$

### Michael J. Mossinghoff, Vincent Pigno and Christopher Pinner

Vol. 8 (2019), No. 2, 151–162
##### Abstract

For a finite abelian group the Lind–Lehmer constant is the minimum positive logarithmic Lind–Mahler measure for that group. Finding this is equivalent to determining the minimal nontrivial group determinant when the matrix entries are integers.

For a group of the form $G={ℤ}_{2}^{r}×{ℤ}_{4}^{s}$ with $|G|\ge 4$ we show that this minimum is always $|G|-1$, a case of sharpness in the trivial bound. For $G={ℤ}_{2}×{ℤ}_{{2}^{n}}$ with $n\ge 3$ the minimum is $9$, and for $G={ℤ}_{{3}^{}}×{ℤ}_{{3}^{n}}$ the minimum is $8$. Previously the minimum was only known for $2$- and $3$-groups of the form $G={ℤ}_{p}^{k}$ or ${ℤ}_{{p}^{k}}$. We also show that a congruence satisfied by the group determinant when $G={ℤ}_{p}^{r}$ generalizes to other abelian $p$-groups.

##### Keywords
Lind–Lehmer constant, Mahler measure, group determinant
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 11R06
Secondary: 11B83, 11C08, 11G50, 11T22, 43A40
##### Milestones
Received: 21 June 2018
Accepted: 24 July 2018
Published: 20 May 2019
##### Authors
 Michael J. Mossinghoff Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Davidson College Davidson, NC United States Vincent Pigno Department of Mathematics & Statistics California State University Sacramento, CA United States Christopher Pinner Department of Mathematics Kansas State University Manhattan, KS United States