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Tito Piezas III
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There's something strange about $\sqrt{d\big(j(\tau)-1728\big)}$

Given the j-function $j(\tau)$, I was looking at,

$$F(\tau) = \sqrt{d\big(j(\tau)-1728\big)}$$

which appears in Ramanujan-type pi formulas. Let $C_d$ be the prime factors of the constant term of the minimal polynomial for $F(\sqrt{-d})$.

Let $d = 23,47,71,199,167$ which are the smallest d such that its class number is $h(-d) = 3,5,7,9,11$, respectively. Then,

$$C_{43} = 3, 7, 19, 43, \color{blue}{163}.$$

$$C_{23} = 3, 7, 11, 19, 23, 43, \color{red}{67}, 83.$$

$$C_{47} = 3, 11, 19, 31, 43, 47, \color{red}{67}, 107, 139, \color{blue}{163}, 179.$$

$$C_{71} = 5, 7, 11, 23, 47, 59, \color{red}{67}, 71, \color{blue}{163}, 283.$$

$$C_{199} = 3, 11, 19, \color{red}{67}, 71, 83, \color{blue}{163}, 199, 571, 787.$$

$$C_{167} = 23, 43, \color{red}{67}, 103, 131, 139, 151, \color{blue}{163}, 167, 227,\dots$$

Does anybody know the reason for this "numerology"?

P.S. In general, I noticed that the prime factors $p_i$ of $C_d$ tend have $h(-p_i)\leq h(-d)$, though with exceptions.

Tito Piezas III
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