A measure of transcendence for singular points on conics

Abstract

A singular point on a plane conic defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ is a transcendental point of the curve which admits very good rational approximations, uniformly in terms of the height. Extremal numbers and Sturmian continued fractions are abscissa of such points on the parabola $y=x^2$. In this paper we provide a measure of transcendence for singular points on conics defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ which, in these two cases, improves on the measure obtained by Adamczewski et Bugeaud. The main tool is a quantitative version of Schmidt subspace theorem due to Evertse.

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