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The Tate-Voloch Conjecture in a Power of a Modular Curve

Number Theory 2013-01-30 v2

Abstract

Let pp be a prime. Tate and Voloch proved that a point of finite order in the algebraic torus cannot be pp-adically too close to a fixed subvariety without lying on it. The current work is motivated by the analogy between torsion points on semi-abelian varieties and special or CM points on Shimura varieties. We prove the analog of Tate and Voloch's result in a power of the modular curve Y(1) on replacing torsion points by points corresponding to a product of elliptic curves with complex multiplication and ordinary reduction. Moreover, we show that the assumption on ordinary reduction is necessary.

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@article{arxiv.1210.3299,
  title  = {The Tate-Voloch Conjecture in a Power of a Modular Curve},
  author = {Philipp Habegger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.3299},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Corrected some typos in version 2