Density of D5 unit shapes on the hypercycle arc
Determine whether the set of unit shapes of rank-2 Minkowski unit lattices arising from D5-extensions of Q with a unique real embedding is dense along the specific hypercycle arc in the modular surface GL_2(Z)\backslash H defined by the circle (x + 1/2)^2 + (y - 1/(2\sqrt{3}))^2 = (2/\sqrt{3})^2, between the points (1 + i\sqrt{3})/2 and -1/2 + i\,5/(2\sqrt{3}).
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Our experimental data suggests that the unit shapes are dense on this curve, but we do not know how to prove this.
— Shapes of unit lattices in $D_p$-number fields
(2501.12504 - Harron et al., 21 Jan 2025) in Subsection 1.4.1 (The quintic case), immediately after Theorem \ref{hypercycle}
The finer questions of the density and equidistribution of unit shapes within $\mathcal{S}_2$ remain open, and motivate much of this work; we return to them in \Cref{sec:conclusion}.
— On the Geometry and Shapes of Rank 2 Log Unit Lattices
(2608.24736 - Cruz et al., 25 Aug 2026) in Section 1.1 and Section 7, Conclusion and future research