English

Siegel's lemma with additional conditions

Number Theory 2007-06-26 v3

Abstract

Let KK be a number field, and let WW be a subspace of KNK^N, N1N \geq 1. Let V1,...,VMV_1,...,V_M be subspaces of KNK^N of dimension less than dimension of WW. We prove the existence of a point of small height in Wi=1MViW \setminus \bigcup_{i=1}^M V_i, providing an explicit upper bound on the height of such a point in terms of heights of WW and V1,...,VMV_1,...,V_M. Our main tool is a counting estimate we prove for the number of points of a subspace of KNK^N inside of an adelic cube. As corollaries to our main result we derive an explicit bound on the height of a non-vanishing point for a decomposable form and an effective subspace extension lemma.

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@article{arxiv.math/0409375,
  title  = {Siegel's lemma with additional conditions},
  author = {Lenny Fukshansky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0409375},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages, revised version, to appear in Journal of Number Theory