Lang's conjecture on canonical heights of elliptic-curve points

Let E/QE/\mathbb{Q} be an elliptic curve with jj-invariant jEj_E and minimal discriminant ΔE\Delta_E. Let h^\hat h denote the canonical height and hh the relevant height on rational numbers. Lang's conjecture. There exists an absolute constant cLc_L such that

h^(P)cLmax{h(jE),h(ΔE)}\hat{h}(P) \geq c_{L}\max\{h(j_E),h(\Delta_E)\}

for all non-torsion points PE(Q)P\in E(\mathbb{Q}). This is a lower-bound conjecture for canonical heights and is used in the paper to establish Bremner's conjecture conditionally; its general status remains open.

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Primary source

Seokhyun Choi, “Additive Rigidity for x-Coordinates of Rational Points on Elliptic Curves”, arXiv:2510.03828 (2026).

Additional references

8 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2311.11266, arXiv:1604.04563, arXiv:1305.6560, arXiv:1108.3051, arXiv:1104.4645, arXiv:1002.4202, arXiv:0712.2696.

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