Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-166/3/b/solution

A suitable theorem is the Baker lower bound for a homogeneous linear form in logarithms. Let be nonzero algebraic numbers with chosen logarithms and let
Choose to bound the degree-normalized Absolute logarithmic Weil height of and , and put . If , then
where is an effectively computable constant depending only on and the degree of the number field generated by the .
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