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For an elliptic curve over a number field, fix the absolute logarithmic $x$-height $h_x(P)=h([x(P):1])$, with $h_x(O)=0$. The normalization used here isThe factor $1/2$ makes this the Néron–Tate height associated with the degree-one divisor $(O)$. Some sources omit $1/2$ and obtain twice this function; formulas and the regulator of an elliptic curve must use a consistent convention.^[ref]

The estimate $h_x(2P)=4h_x(P)+O(1)$ makes successive terms differ by a summable geometric series, proving convergence and $\hat{h}(P)=h_x(P)/2+O(1)$. The resulting quadratic form satisfies $\hat{h}([m]P)=m^2\hat{h}(P)$ and the height parallelogram identity. It is nonnegative and vanishes exactly on torsion points of an elliptic curve; bounded-height rational points over a fixed number field form a finite set. For an isogeny $\varphi :E\to E^{\prime }$, the corresponding normalized heights satisfy ${\hat{h}}_{E^{\prime }}(\varphi P)=\mathrm{deg}(\varphi ){\hat{h}}_E(P)$.