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By part b, writeThe canonical height of an elliptic curve vanishes on torsion and satisfies $\hat{h}(mG+T)=m^2\hat{h}(G)$. If $\hat{h}(P)=\hat{h}(Q)\ne 0$, their nonzero integer coefficients therefore have equal squares, sofor some $T\in E_5[2]$.

Negation leaves the $x$-coordinate unchanged. Addition by the four 2-torsion points changes $x$ amongSubstitution in the three side formulas for ${\Delta }_P$, using $5y^2=x^3-x$, only changes signs and permutes the three values. Hence ${\Delta }_Q$ and ${\Delta }_P$ are the same right triangle up to reordering their sides.

Set $h(O_E)=0$ andfor $P\ne O_E$. The canonical height of an elliptic curve isThe duplication formula is a rational function of degree four in $x$, so the rational-map height estimate in part (a) givesTherefore successive terms of $4^{-r}h([2^r]P)$ differ by at most $C_E{4}^{-r-1}$, and the limit is well defined.

Shifting the limit immediately gives $\hat{h}([2]P)=4\hat{h}(P)$. The addition formula likewise givesApply this to $[2^r]P,[2^r]Q$, divide by $2\cdot 4^r$, and pass to the limit to obtain the exact parallelogram lawTaking $Q=P$ starts an induction on $|n|$ that yieldsfor every integer $n$.

Let $h=\log H$ and set $h_x(P)=h(x(P))$ for $P\ne O$, with $h_x(O)=0$. The given degree-four morphism and part (a) imply that a constant $C$ exists withfor every $P\in E(\mathbb{Q})$. DefineTo check the limit, put $a_r=4^{-r}{h}_x(2^{r}P)$. ThenThe geometric series converges, so $(a_r)$ is Cauchy and the limit exists. This is the canonical height of an elliptic curve; shifting the sequence by one index immediately gives $\hat{h}(2P)=4\hat{h}(P)$.

Because the canonical height of an elliptic curve is a quadratic form, polarization makesa symmetric bilinear form on the free part of the Mordell-Weil group. If $P_i^{\prime }={\sum }_j{U}_{ij}{P}_j$ is another integral basis, then $U\in {\mathrm{GL}}_r(\mathbb{Z})$ and the Gram matrices satisfySince $\det U=\pm 1$, their determinants agree. Thus the regulator of an elliptic curve is independent of the chosen basis.

Now let $Q_1,\dots ,Q_r$ be a basis for the free part of $E^{\prime }(\mathbb{Q})$. The images $\varphi (P_i)$ span a finite-index sublattice, so modulo torsionfor an integral matrix $A$ with nonzero determinant. The height identity givesTaking determinants in the two descriptions of this Gram matrix yieldsTherefore the required formula holds with $d=(\det A{)}^{-1}\in {\mathbb{Q}}^{\times }$.

The biquadratic morphism for elliptic sums and differences has no common zero, so the local coefficient norms giveuniformly in $P,Q$. Upper bounds use the fixed coefficients. Lower bounds follow from the absence of common zeros over every local field; the constants are $1$ outside finitely many places, where the integral morphism still has no base point after reduction.

For the binary quadratic with roots $u,v\in {\mathbb{P}}^1(K)$, the projective height of its coefficient vector is $h(u)+h(v)+O(1)$. At nonarchimedean places the coefficient maximum norm of a product of linear polynomials is the product of their maximum norms by the multiplicativity of the nonarchimedean polynomial norm. At archimedean places the same norms are comparable up to a fixed factor for degree two. This also includes roots at infinity. Combining the comparisons yields $h_x(P+Q)+h_x(P-Q)=2h_x(P)+2h_x(Q)+O(1)$. After dividing the identity for $2^{n}P,2^{n}Q$ by $4^n$ and taking limits, it gives the exact height parallelogram identity for the canonical height of an elliptic curve.