A Lehmer-type height lower bound for abelian surfaces over function fields


Abstract in English

Let $K$ be a 1-dimensional function field over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$, and let $A/K$ be an abelian surface. Under mild assumptions, we prove a Lehmer-type lower bound for points in $A(bar{K})$. More precisely, we prove that there are constants $C_1,C_2>0$ such that the normalized Bernoulli-part of the canonical height is bounded below by $$ hat{h}_A^{mathbb{B}}(P) ge C_1bigl[K(P):Kbigr]^{-2} $$ for all points $Pin{A(bar{K})}$ whose height satisfies $0<hat{h}_A(P)le{C_2}$.

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