Heights of points with bounded ramification
Abstract
Let be an elliptic curve defined over a number field with fixed non-archimedean absolute value of split-multiplicative reduction, and let be an associated Latt\`es map. Baker proved in 2003 that the N\'eron-Tate height on is either zero or bounded from below by a positive constant, for all points of bounded ramification over . In this paper we make this bound effective and prove an analogue result for the canonical height associated to . We also study variations of this result by changing the reduction type of at . This will lead to examples of fields such that the N\'eron-Tate height on non-torsion points in is bounded from below by a positive constant and the height associated to gets arbitrarily small on . The same example shows, that the existence of such a lower bound for the N\'eron-Tate height is in general not preserved under finite field extensions.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.3327,
title = {Heights of points with bounded ramification},
author = {Lukas Pottmeyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3327},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
There was an error in the proof of the former Lemma 5.8. This false lemma and the former Theorem 5.9 have been deleted in this version