Lang's lower-bound conjecture for canonical heights on elliptic curves

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Let kk be a number field, let E/kE/k be an elliptic curve, and let P∈E(k)P\in E(k) be a point of infinite order. Write h^\widehat{h} for the Néron–Tate height on EE, ΔE\Delta_E for the minimal discriminant, and jEj_E for the modular invariant. Then h^(P)\widehat{h}(P) should satisfy

Lang's conjecture. There is a positive constant c(k)c(k), depending only on kk, such that

h^(P)≥c(k) max⁡{log⁡N⁡k/Q(ΔE),h(jE)}.\widehat{h}(P) \geq c(k)\,\max\Big\{\log \operatorname{N}_{k/\mathbb{Q}}(\Delta_E),h(j_E)\Big\}.

This is the elliptic-curve case of the Lang–Silverman lower-bound conjecture. The source explains that it is known in several partial cases, including under a uniformly bounded Szpiro quotient, but the general assertion remains open.

References

Primary source

Fabien Pazuki, “Minoration de la hauteur de Neron-Tate sur les surfaces abeliennes”, arXiv:0812.2854 (2015).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0812.2849.

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