Variation of canonical height and equidistribution
Variation of canonical height and equidistribution
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DOI:
10.1353/ajm.2020.0012
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发表时间:
2017-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Laura Demarco;Niki Myrto Mavraki
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作者:
Laura Demarco;Niki Myrto Mavraki
abstract:Let $\pi:E\to B$ be an elliptic surface defined over a number field $K$, where $B$ is a smooth projective curve, and let $P: B\to E$ be a section defined over $K$ with canonical height $\hat{h}_E(P)\not=0$. In this article, we show that the function $t\mapsto\hat{h}_{E_t}(P_t)$on $B(\overline{K})$ is the height induced from an adelically metrized line bundle with continuous semipositive metrics on $B$. The proof builds on workof Silverman and results from complex dynamical systems. Applying arithmetic equidistribution theorems (of Chambert-Loir, Thuillier, and Yuan), we obtain the equidistribution of points $t\in B(\overline{K})$ where $P_t$ is torsion, and we give an explicit description of the limiting distribution on$B({\Bbb C})$. Finally, combined with results of Masser and Zannier, we show that---for any non-special section $P$ of a family of abelian varieties$A\to B$ that split as a product of elliptic curves---there is a positive lower bound on the height $\hat{h}_{A_t}(P_t)$, after excluding finitely many points $t\in B$, thus addressing a conjecture of Zhang from 1998.