Canonical heights and division polynomials

Abstract

We discuss a new method to compute the canonical height of an algebraic point on a hyperelliptic jacobian over a number field. The method does not require any geometrical models, neither $p$-adic nor complex analytic ones. In the case of genus 2 we also present a version that requires no factorisation at all. The method is based on a recurrence relation for the `division polynomials' associated to hyperelliptic jacobians, and a diophantine approximation result due to Faltings.

17 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; comments welcome

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• An explicit theory of heights for hyperelliptic Jacobians of genus three
• Canonical Heights on Genus Two Jacobians
• Explicit Kummer varieties of hyperelliptic Jacobian threefolds

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• Canonical Heights on Genus Two Jacobians