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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 166 3 a Solution by
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For a linear form over a number field , define its height to be the projective height of its coefficient vector:The product formula makes this independent of multiplying by a nonzero scalar.
The Siegel lemma says the following. Let , let be linear forms in variables with , and suppose for every , where . Then there is a nonzero annihilated by all the forms and satisfying
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