 Canonical-height lattice-point growth (source code)

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= Canonical-height lattice-point growth

If an elliptic curve over $\mathbb Q$ has <Mordell-Weil group> of rank $r$, then its <canonical height of an elliptic curve> is a positive-definite <quadratic form> on the free lattice. Consequently
$$
\#\{P:\widehat h(P)\leq B\}=O(B^{r/2}).
$$

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