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Heights of points on elliptic curves over $\mathbb Q$

Number Theory 2022-06-13 v4

Abstract

In this note we obtain effective lower bounds for the canonical heights of non-torsion points on E(Q)E(\mathbb{Q}) by making use of suitable elliptic curve ideal class pairings ΨE,D:E(Q)×ED(Q)CL(D).\Psi_{E,-D}: E(\mathbb{Q})\times E_{-D}(\mathbb{Q})\mapsto \mathrm{CL}(-D). In terms of the class number H(D)H(-D) and TE(D)T_E(-D), a logarithmic function in DD, we prove h^(P)>Etor(Q)2(H(D)+Etor(Q))2TE(D). \widehat{h}(P)> \frac{|E_{\mathrm{tor}}(\mathbb{Q})|^2}{\left( H(-D)+ |E_{\mathrm{tor}}(\mathbb{Q})|\right)^2}\cdot T_E(-D).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.09514,
  title  = {Heights of points on elliptic curves over $\mathbb Q$},
  author = {Michael Griffin and Ken Ono and Wei-Lun Tsai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09514},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Comments. 1) This paper was published as Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 149 (2021), 5093-5100. 2) After the paper was published, we discovered a typographical error in the example after Theorem 1.1. The number 0.043 should be 0.035