David's conjecture on Lehmer-type lower bounds for abelian varieties

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Let A/KA/K be an abelian variety over a number field, let L\mathcal{L} be an ample symmetric line bundle on AA, and let g=dim⁡Ag=\dim A. For P∈A(K‾)P\in A(\overline{K}) that is not torsion under End⁡(AK‾)\operatorname{End}(A_{\overline{K}}), set

Dtors=[K(Ators,P):K(Ators)].D_{\mathrm{tors}}=[K(A_{\mathrm{tors}},P):K(A_{\mathrm{tors}})].

David's conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0, there exists a constant c(A/K,L)>0c(A/K,\mathcal{L})>0 such that

h^L(P)≥c(A/K,L)Dtors1g+ε.\widehat{h}_{\mathcal{L}}(P)\geq\frac{c(A/K,\mathcal{L})}{D_{\mathrm{tors}}^{\frac{1}{g}+\varepsilon}}.

The paper notes that its main theorem answers this conjecture for elliptic curves with complex multiplication; the general statement is not resolved here.

References

Primary source

Nicolas Ratazzi, “Theoreme de Dobrowolski-Laurent pour les extensions abeliennes sur une courbe elliptique a multiplication complexe”, arXiv:math/0402224 (2004).

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