Computing heights via limits of Hodge structures
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Heights (11G50) Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07) Arithmetic ground fields for surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J20) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Computational aspects of higher-dimensional varieties (14Q15) Effectivity, complexity and computational aspects of algebraic geometry (14Q20)
Abstract: We consider the problem of explicitly computing Beilinson--Bloch heights of homologically trivial cycles on varieties defined over number fields. Recent results have established a congruence, up to the rational span of logarithms of primes, between the height of certain limit mixed Hodge structures and certain Beilinson--Bloch heights obtained from odd-dimensional hypersurfaces with a node. This congruence suggests a new method to compute Beilinson--Bloch heights. Here we explain how to compute the relevant limit mixed Hodge structures in practice, then apply our computational method to a nodal quartic curve and a nodal cubic threefold. In both cases, we explain the nature of the primes occurring in the congruence.
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