On the essential minimum of Faltings' height

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3286zbMATH Open1436.11077arXiv1609.00071OpenAlexW2964309100MaRDI QIDQ4640328FDOQ4640328

Authors: José Ignacio Burgos Gil, Ricardo Menares, Juan Rivera-Letelier 

Publication date: 17 May 2018

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the essential minimum of the (stable) Faltings height on the moduli space of elliptic curves. We prove that, in contrast to the Weil height on a projective space and the N{'e}ron-Tate height of an abelian variety, Faltings' height takes at least two values that are smaller than its essential minimum. We also provide upper and lower bounds for this quantity that allow us to compute it up to five decimal places. In addition, we give numerical evidence that there are at least four isolated values before the essential minimum. One of the main ingredients in our analysis is a good approximation of the hyperbolic Green function associated to the cusp of the modular curve of level one. To establish this approximation, we make an intensive use of distortion theorems for univalent functions. Our results have been motivated and guided by numerical experiments that are described in detail in the companion files.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00071

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zbMATH Keywords

Faltings' heighthyperbolic Green function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Heights (11G50) Arithmetic varieties and schemes; Arakelov theory; heights (14G40) Height functions; Green functions; invariant measures in arithmetic and non-Archimedean dynamical systems (37P30)

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