Algebraic points of small height missing a union of varieties

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2010.03.018MaRDI QIDQ708249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lenny Fukshansky

Publication date 11 October 2010

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2476

zbMATH Keywords

heightslatticesSiegel's Lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heights (11G50) Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25)

Abstract: Let $K$ be a number field, $overlinemathbbQ$, or the field of rational functions on a smooth projective curve over a perfect field, and let $V$ be a subspace of $K^N$, $Ngeq2$. Let $Z_K$ be a union of varieties defined over $K$ such that $Vsubseteq{Z}_K$. We prove the existence of a point of small height in $Vsetminus{Z}_K$, providing an explicit upper bound on the height of such a point in terms of the height of $V$ and the degree of a hypersurface containing $Z_K$, where dependence on both is optimal. This generalizes and improves upon the previous results of the author. As a part of our argument, we provide a basic extension of the function field version of Siegel's lemma of J. Thunder to an inequality with inhomogeneous heights. As a corollary of the method, we derive an explicit lower bound for the number of algebraic integers of bounded height in a fixed number field.

Review text

In a previous paper [J. Number Theory, 120, 13--25 (2006; Zbl 1192.11018)] the author showed that if \(V\) is an \(n\)-dimensional space over an algebraic number field \(K\), and \(V_1,\dots,V_m\) are its proper subspaces, then there exists a point in \(V\setminus \bigcup_{i=1}^m V_i\) with explicitly bounded height. Here this result is strengthened and extended to cover also the case when \(K\) is either the field of all algebraic numbers or the field of rational functions on a smooth projective curve over a perfect field. As an application the author obtained an explicit lower bound for the number of algebraic integers with bounded height in a fixed algebraic number field. Since the appearance of this paper some of its results were strengthened by \textit{É. Gaudron} [Manuscr. Math. 130, No. 2, 159--182 (2009; Zbl 1231.11076)] and \textit{É.Gaudron} and \textit{G. Rémond} [Acta Arith. 154, No. 2, 125--136 (2012; Zbl 1266.11080)].

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