Commutative algebraic groups and $p$-adic linear forms

Abstract

Let $G$ be a commutative algebraic group defined over a number field $K$ that is disjoint over $K$ to ${\mathbb{G}}_a$ and satisfies the condition of semistability. Consider a linear form $l$ on the Lie algebra of $G$ with algebraic coefficients and an algebraic point $u$ in a $p$-adic neighbourhood of the origin with the condition that $l$ does not vanish at $u$. We give a lower bound for the $p$-adic absolute value of $l(u)$ which depends up to an effectively computable constant only on the height of the linear form, the height of the point $u$ and $p$.

arXiv commentThis is a preprint of the Materials accepted for publication in "Acta Arithmetica"