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Mathematics of Computation

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Computing canonical heights on the projective line with no factorization
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Math. Comp. 86 (2017), 3019-3029 Request permission

Abstract:

We give an algorithm which requires no integer factorization for computing the canonical height of a point in $\mathbb {P}^{1}(\mathbb {Q})$ relative to a morphism $\phi : \mathbb {P}_{\mathbb {Q}}^{1} \rightarrow \mathbb {P}_{\mathbb {Q}}^{1}$ of degree $d \geq 2$.
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Additional Information
  • Elliot Wells
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
  • Email: ellwells@math.brown.edu
  • Received by editor(s): March 3, 2016
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 12, 2016
  • Published electronically: April 7, 2017
  • © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 86 (2017), 3019-3029
  • MSC (2010): Primary 37P30; Secondary 11G50, 11Y16
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3200
  • MathSciNet review: 3667036