Algebraic numbers close to 1 in non-archimedean metrics (Q1279858)

Let \(\alpha\) be an algebraic number of degree \(d\geq 2\), not a root of unity, denote by \(M(\alpha)>1\) its Mahler measure, put \({\mathbf K}={\mathbb Q}(\alpha)\) and let \(\Gamma\) be any subset of the set of all normalized valuations of \({\mathbf K}\). For any valuation \(v\) put \(d_v=0\) if \(v\) is non-archimedean, and for archimedean \(v\) put \(d_v=1\) if \(v\) corresponds to a real embedding of \({\mathbf K}\) and \(d_v=2\) otherwise. Moreover put \(c_\Gamma=\sum_{v\in\Gamma}d_v\). It is shown (Theorem 1) that if for an integer \(K\geq 2\) and every archimedean valuation \(v\in\Gamma\) one has \(v(\alpha-1)<(3/(K-1))^{d_v}\), then \[ \sum_{v\in\Gamma}\min\{0,\log v(\alpha-1)\}\geq-c_\Gamma\log K -{d\log K\over K-1}-{K+1\over 3}\log M(\alpha). \] This implies (Theorem 2) the inequality \[ \log| N(\alpha-1)| \leq 2\sqrt{d\log d\log M(\alpha)}+4\log M(\alpha), \] and Theorem 3 states that the dependence on \(d\) in this inequality is sharp. Finally a result concerning \(p\)-adic approximations to several algebraic numbers (similar to Theorem 2, but dealing with one valuation only) is given (Theorem 4).