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A Lehmer-type height lower bound for abelian surfaces over function fields

Number Theory 2021-08-24 v1 Algebraic Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let KK be a 1-dimensional function field over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 00, and let A/KA/K be an abelian surface. Under mild assumptions, we prove a Lehmer-type lower bound for points in A(Kˉ)A(\bar{K}). More precisely, we prove that there are constants C1,C2>0C_1,C_2>0 such that the normalized Bernoulli-part of the canonical height is bounded below by h^AB(P)C1[K(P):K]2 \hat{h}_A^{\mathbb{B}}(P) \ge C_1\bigl[K(P):K\bigr]^{-2} for all points PA(Kˉ)P\in{A(\bar{K})} whose height satisfies 0<h^A(P)C20<\hat{h}_A(P)\le{C_2}.

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@article{arxiv.2108.09577,
  title  = {A Lehmer-type height lower bound for abelian surfaces over function fields},
  author = {Nicole R. Looper and Joseph H. Silverman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09577},
  year   = {2021}
}

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48 pages

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