Northcott numbers for the house and the Weil height
Abstract
For an algebraic number and , be the (logarithmic) Weil height, and be the -weighted (logarithmic) Weil height of . Let be a function on the algebraic numbers , and let . The Northcott number of , with respect to , is the infimum of all such that is infinite. This paper studies the set of Northcott numbers for subrings of for the house, the Weil height, and the -weighted Weil height. We show: (1) Every is the Northcott number of a ring of integers of a field w.r.t. the house. (2) For each there exists a field with Northcott number in w.r.t. the Weil height . (3) For all and there exists a field with and . For we provide examples that satisfy an analogue of Julia Robinon's property (JR), examples that satisfy an analogue of Vidaux and Videla's isolation property, and examples that satisfy neither of those. Item concerns a question raised by Vidaux and Videla due to its direct link with decidability theory via the Julia Robinson number. Item (3) is a strong generalisation of the known fact that there are fields that satisfy the Lehmer conjecture but which are not Bogomolov in the sense of Bombieri and Zannier.
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@article{arxiv.2107.09027,
title = {Northcott numbers for the house and the Weil height},
author = {Fabien Pazuki and Niclas Technau and Martin Widmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.09027},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
To appear in Bull. Lond. Math. Soc