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The Bogomolov conjecture for totally degenerate abelian varieties

Number Theory 2009-11-11 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We prove the Bogomolov conjecture for an abelian variety A over a function field which is totally degenerate at a place v. We adapt Zhang's proof of the number field case replacing the complex analytic tools by tropical analytic geometry. A key step is the tropical equidistribution theorem for A at the totally degenerate place. As an application, we obtain finiteness of torsion points with coordinates in the maximal unramified algebraic extension over v.

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@article{arxiv.math/0609387,
  title  = {The Bogomolov conjecture for totally degenerate abelian varieties},
  author = {Walter Gubler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609387},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages; submitted. Minor errors corrected, applications in Section 6 added