A lower bound for the height of a rational function at $S$-unit points

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2003-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/math/0311030v2

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Number Theory

Plain TeX 18 pages. Version 2; minor changes. To appear on Monatshefte fuer Mathematik

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Let $\Gamma$ be a finitely generated subgroup of the multiplicative group $\G_m^2(\bar{Q})$. Let $p(X,Y),q(X,Y)\in\bat{Q}$ be two coprime polynomials not both vanishing at $(0,0)$; let $\epsilon>0$. We prove that, for all $(u,v)\in\Gamma$ outside a proper Zariski closed subset of $G_m^2$, the height of $p(u,v)/q(u,v)$ verifies $h(p(u,v)/q(u,v))>h(1:p(u,v):q(u,v))-\epsilon \max(h(uu),h(v))$. As a consequence, we deduce upper bounds for (a generalized notion of) the g.c.d. of $u-1,v-1$ for $u,v$ running over $\Gamma$.

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