A gap in the spectrum of the Faltings height

Abstract: We show that the minimum

h_{e x t m i n}

of the stable Faltings height on elliptic curves found by Deligne is followed by a gap. This means that there is a constant

C > 0

such that for every elliptic curve

E / K

with everywhere semistable reduction over a number field

K

, we either have

h (E / K) = h_{e x t m i n}

or

h (E / K) g e q h_{e x t m i n} + C

. We determine such an absolute constant explicitly. On the contrary, we show that there is no such gap for elliptic curves with unstable reduction.

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