Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 125 3 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For represented by coprime integers, its naive height on the projective line isWrite the degree- morphism as , where are homogeneous of degree with no common projective zero. Bounding their coefficients gives
For the reverse inequality, the nonvanishing of the resultant of and gives homogeneous Bézout identities expressing fixed nonzero integer multiples of powers of and as polynomial combinations of and . Evaluating at , removing the common divisor of and , and taking the larger of givesThus for constants depending only on .