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A height inequality for rational points on elliptic curves implied by the abc-conjecture

Number Theory 2012-11-13 v2

Abstract

In this short note we show that the uniform abc-conjecture over number fields puts strong restrictions on the coordinates of rational points on elliptic curves. For the proof we use a variant of the uniform abc-conjecture over number fields formulated by Mochizuki. As an application, we generalize a result of Silverman on elliptic non-Wieferich primes.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6543,
  title  = {A height inequality for rational points on elliptic curves implied by the abc-conjecture},
  author = {Ulf Kühn and J. Steffen Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6543},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

6 pages. Fixed typos, added more references and an application to elliptic non-Wieferich primes

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