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            | Clayton Petsche Small rational points on elliptic curves over number fields |  | 
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                | Published: | September 2, 2006 |  
                | Keywords: | Elliptic curves, heights, torsion points, Szpiro ratio, Lang's conjecture |  
                | Subject: | 11G05, 11G07, 11G50 |  |  | 
 |  | Abstract 
			      
Let E/k be an elliptic curve over a number field.  We obtain some quantitative refinements of results of Hindry-Silverman, giving an upper bound for the number of k-rational torsion points, and a lower bound for the canonical height of nontorsion k-rational points, in terms of expressions depending explicitly on the degree d=[k:Q] of k and the Szpiro ratio σ of E/k.  The bounds exhibit only polynomial dependence on both d and σ.
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			  | Author information Department of Mathematics, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7403clayton@math.uga.edu
 
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