On the heights of totally p-adic numbers

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Abstract: Bombieri and Zannier established lower and upper bounds for the limit infimum of the Weil height in fields of totally p-adic numbers and generalizations thereof. In this paper, we use potential theoretic techniques to generalize the upper bounds from their paper and, under the assumption of integrality, to improve slightly upon their bounds.


Let \(K\) be a number field and let \(S\) be the set of places of \(K\). For each \(v \in S\) let \(L_v\) be the Galois closure of \(K_v\). The number \(\alpha\) is said to be totally in \(L_S/K\) if for each \(v \in S\) all the \(K\)-Galois conjugates of \(\alpha\) lie in \(L_v\). Generalizing an earlier result of \textit{E. Bombieri} and \textit{U. Zannier} [Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei, Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Nat., IX. Ser., Rend. Lincei, Mat. Appl. 12, No. 1, 5--14 (2001; Zbl 1072.11077)], the author proves the inequality \[ \liminf_{\alpha \in O_L} h(\alpha) \geq \frac{1}{2} \sum_{v \in S} N_v \frac{\log p_v}{e_v (q_v^{f_v}-1)}, \] where \(S\) is a set of nonarchimedean places of \(K\), \(L\) is the field of all totally \(L_S/K\) numbers, \(O_L\) is its ring of integers, \(N_v=[K_v:\mathbb{Q}_v]/[K:\mathbb{Q}]\), \(e_v\), \(f_v\) denote the ramification and inertial degrees of \(L_v/K_v\), respectively, \(q_v\) is the order of the residue field of \(K_v\), and \(p_v\) is a rational prime above which \(v\) lies. A corresponding upper bound (differing form the lower bound only by the absence of the factor \(1/2\)) is also given. The author conjectures that the upper bound is sharp.











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