Small Height and Infinite Non-Abelian Extensions
Number Theory
2019-12-19 v2
Abstract
Let be an elliptic curve defined over the rationals without complex multiplication. The field generated by all torsion points of is an infinite, non-abelian Galois extension of the rationals which has unbounded, wild ramification above all primes. We prove that the absolute logarithmic Weil height of an element of is either zero or bounded from below by a positive constant depending only on . We also show that the N\'eron-Tate height has a similar gap on and use this to determine the structure of the group .
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@article{arxiv.1109.5859,
title = {Small Height and Infinite Non-Abelian Extensions},
author = {Philipp Habegger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.5859},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Added new corollary on the structure of the group $E(F)$ and corrected some typos in version 2