Generalized Lehmer conjecture for abelian varieties

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Let AA be an abelian variety over a number field KK, and let L{\mathcal L} be a symmetric ample line bundle on AA. For a point P∈A(K‾)P\in A(\overline{K}), write D=[K(P):K]D=[K(P):K] and let g0(P)g_0(P) denote the dimension of the smallest algebraic subgroup of AA containing PP.

Generalized Lehmer conjecture. There exists a positive constant c=c(A,K,L)c=c(A,K,\mathcal L) such that

h^(P)≥cD−1/g0(P)\widehat h(P)\geq cD^{-1/g_0(P)}

for all nontorsion points P∈A(K‾)P\in A(\overline{K}).

This is a height lower-bound problem for nontorsion points on abelian varieties, generalizing Lehmer-type conjectures for other algebraic groups. The source identifies it as an open problem; the theorem proved in the paper establishes a different uniform positive lower bound for points over the maximal abelian extension.

References

Primary source

Matthew Baker and Joseph Silverman, “A Lower Bound for the Canonical Height on Abelian Varieties over Abelian Extensions”, arXiv:math/0312393 (2004).

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