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This quantitative refinement belongs to the theory of Baker's theorem; its dependence on the scaled coefficient bound is more specific than that broad theorem.

Choose logarithms of nonzero algebraic numbers ${\alpha }_1,\dots ,{\alpha }_n$, putand choose $A_i\ge 10$ large enough to bound the naive polynomial height of the algebraic minimal polynomial of ${\alpha }_i$ and $\exp (|\log {\alpha }_i|)$. Relabel so that $A_1\le \cdots \le A_n$, and setThere is an effectively computable constant $C$, depending only on $n$ and the degree of the number field generated by the ${\alpha }_i$, such that

The division by $\log A_n$ is the useful refinement over the general lower bound for a linear form in logarithms when one algebraic number has a large height correlated with a coefficient.

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]

The $j$th normalized derivative isIf $P(X)={\sum }_r{a}_r{X}^r$ has integer coefficients, then $D_{j}P(X)={\sum }_{r\ge j}\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{r}{j}\right)a_r{X}^{r-j}$ also has integer coefficients. For $\mathrm{deg}P\le n$, its naive polynomial height is at most $2^{n}H(P)$.

For the general result, choose logarithms of nonzero algebraic numbers ${\alpha }_1,\dots ,{\alpha }_s$ and algebraic coefficients ${\beta }_0,\dots ,{\beta }_s$, and putLetwhere $f_{{\alpha }_j}$ is the minimal polynomial and its $H$ is the naive polynomial height, and letThe general lower bound for a linear form in logarithms states that, if $\Lambda \ne 0$, thenwhere the effective constant $C$ depends only on $s$ and the degree of the number field generated by all the data.

For the improved homogeneous result, take $b_1,\dots ,b_s\in \mathbb{Z}$ andWith the same $A_j$, after ordering the terms setThe Baker lower bound for a homogeneous linear form in logarithms givesBoth constants are effective. The division by $\log A_s$ in $B^{\ast }$ is the improvement that matters when ${\alpha }_s$ has variable height.