Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 166 3 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A suitable theorem is the Baker lower bound for a homogeneous linear form in logarithms. Let be nonzero algebraic numbers with chosen logarithms and letChoose to bound the degree-normalized Absolute logarithmic Weil height of and , and put . If , thenwhere is an effectively computable constant depending only on and the degree of the number field generated by the .