English

Local heights on elliptic curves and intersection multiplicities

Number Theory 2014-01-28 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In this short note we prove a formula for local heights on elliptic curves over number fields in terms of intersection theory on a regular model over the ring of integers.

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@article{arxiv.1003.2050,
  title  = {Local heights on elliptic curves and intersection multiplicities},
  author = {Vincenz Busch and Jan Steffen Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2050},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages. Rewrote the proof of Theorem 1 using Lemmas 8 and 9. Fixed several typos and inaccuracies

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