John Lee : Heights in Diophantine geometry

Posted by Zhehao Li , part of the Graduate Number Theory Seminar.

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Jan. 25, 2023, 4 p.m.

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Abstract

The height functions are designed to describe arithmetic complexity, and they are a key tool in proving many important finiteness theorems in Diophantine Geometry. Today we will introduce some basic height functions and how they can be useful.

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