Height bound for a polynomial evaluation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Let have degree at most in . Then
whenever the quotient is defined. At each non-Archimedean place, the integral coefficients contribute at most one; at the Archimedean places, the triangle inequality contributes the polynomial length. Multiplying these local estimates and using the product formula gives the claim.
Let be a number field. Its places consist of its real embeddings, conjugate pairs of complex embeddings, and the finite places associated with nonzero prime ideals of its ring of integers of a number field. At a real or complex place use the usual absolute value. If lies over the prime number with ramification index , normalize its absolute value by
These normalizations extend the standard absolute values on .
Write for the local degree of a place. Thus is at a real place, at a complex place, and at a finite place. The Absolute multiplicative Weil height is
The product formula shows that this is unchanged when is replaced by a larger number field containing .
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The product formula says that every satisfies
First suppose that is an algebraic integer. Its principal ideal has the prime ideal factorization
Taking the ideal norm gives
On the other hand, the field norm is the product over embeddings, so
Equating these expressions proves the formula for algebraic integers. Every nonzero element of is a quotient of two algebraic integers, and multiplicativity completes the proof.
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For every ,
For , this follows directly from
at each place of a number field. The product formula gives , because
and this handles negative as well.
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Write for the polynomial length. The height bound for a polynomial evaluation is
provided the denominator is nonzero. At non-Archimedean places the integral coefficients and ultrametric inequality give the local estimate without an extra constant; at Archimedean places the triangle inequality gives the polynomial length. Multiplication over every place of a number field and the product formula produce the displayed bound.
Taking and gives
Taking gives
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For a linear form over a number field , define its height to be the projective height of its coefficient vector:
The product formula makes this independent of multiplying by a nonzero scalar.
The Siegel lemma says the following. Let , let be linear forms in variables with , and suppose for every , where . Then there is a nonzero annihilated by all the forms and satisfying
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One Archimedean form of the Schmidt subspace theorem is as follows. Let be linearly independent linear forms in variables with algebraic coefficients. For every , all nonzero satisfying
belong to a finite union of proper rational linear subspaces of .
We will also use its finite-place form: if is a finite set of places containing the Archimedean ones and, for each , the forms are independent, then the integer solutions of
lie in finitely many proper rational subspaces. The absolute values are normalized so that the product formula holds.
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Choose a number field containing . At every place of , put
The triangle inequality gives
where at every non-Archimedean place because the coefficients are integers, while at an Archimedean place one may take
Raise these inequalities to the local weights and multiply over all places. The definition of the Absolute multiplicative Weil height and the product formula then give
This is the height bound for a polynomial evaluation.
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Projective height Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a nonzero vector over a number field , its absolute projective height is
The product formula makes this unchanged by multiplying all coordinates by the same nonzero scalar. The projective height of a linear form is the projective height of its coefficient vector.