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Choose logarithms of nonzero algebraic numbers ${\alpha }_1,\dots ,{\alpha }_n$ and algebraic numbers ${\beta }_0,\dots ,{\beta }_n$, and putLet $H(\gamma )$ be the naive polynomial height of the primitive algebraic minimal polynomial of $\gamma$. Choose $A_j\ge \max \{10,H({\alpha }_j),\exp (|\log {\alpha }_j|)\}$ and $B\ge \max \{10,H({\beta }_0),\dots ,H({\beta }_n),\log A_1,\dots ,\log A_n\}$. There is an effectively computable $C>0$, depending only on $n$ and the field extension degree of the number field generated by the data, such thatThe algebraic constant term is included here. Theorem 1.1 of the primary Philippon–Waldschmidt paper bounds $|\Lambda |$ below by $\exp [-C_0(n,D)\Omega (\log B+\log \log A)]$, with $\Omega ={\prod }_j\log A_j$ and $A=\max \{A_j,e^e\}$. Our assumption $B\ge \log A_j$ absorbs the extra term into $\log B$. Increasing each $A_j$ by a fixed power depending only on $n$ meets their normalization $A_j\ge e^n$, with the change absorbed into $C$. Thus this is a corollary of their general algebraic-coefficient theorem, including ${\beta }_0$, rather than an application of only the homogeneous integer-coefficient bound.^[ref]

Michel Waldschmidt works on transcendental number theory and Diophantine approximation. With Patrice Philippon, he wrote quantitative results for linear forms in logarithms of algebraic numbers of algebraic numbers.^[ref]

A nonzero expression such as $b_1\log {\alpha }_1+b_2\log {\alpha }_2$ can be small, but lower bounds limit how small it can be in terms of the algebraic data and coefficient sizes. Such bounds convert qualitative nonvanishing into numerical restrictions useful in solving Diophantine equations. The algebraic-coefficient and integer-coefficient cases require distinct estimates.^[ref]

Patrice Philippon works on transcendental number theory. His joint chapter with Michel Waldschmidt gives lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms of algebraic numbers, explicitly distinguishing general algebraic coefficients from rational-integer coefficients.^[ref]

The central arithmetic question is quantitative: once a logarithmic combination is known to be nonzero, how closely can it approach zero? An explicit bound links Diophantine approximation to finite calculations and can help restrict candidate solutions of Diophantine equations.