Specialization of canonical heights on abelian varieties

arXiv2110.07664MaRDI QIDQ6380378FDOQ6380378

Alexander Carney

Publication date: 14 October 2021

Abstract: Given a family of abelian varieties over a quasiprojective smooth curve $T^0$ over a global field and a point $P$ on the generic fiber, we show that the N'eron-Tate canonical height $h_{X_t}(P_t)$ of $P_t$ along each fiber is exactly equal to a Weil height $h_{overlineM}(t)$ given by an adelic metrized line bundle $overlineM$ on the unique smooth projective curve $T$ containing $T^0$. As a consequence, we show that a conjecture of Zhang on the finiteness of small-height specializations of $P$ is equivalent to $overlineM$ being big.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abelian varieties of dimension (> 1) (11G10) 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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