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Heights of torsion points on commutative group varieties. II. (English) Zbl 0686.14046

[For part I see S. P. Cohen, ibid. 52, 427-444 (1986; Zbl 0567.14024).]
We study the arithmetic properties of torsion points on the commutative group variety given by a non-trivial additive extension of an elliptic curve defined over a number field, and show in particular that the Weil height of these points grows as the logarithm of their order, when this order is coprime to a finite set of exceptional primes. The results obtained are applied to derive explicit formulae for the p-adic periods, or Tate constants, of the height one and height two formal groups associated to elliptic curves with good reduction at the prime \(p\geq 5\), defined over a finite extension of the completion of \({\mathbb{Q}}\) at p.
Reviewer: P.Cohen

MSC:

14K05 Algebraic theory of abelian varieties
14G40 Arithmetic varieties and schemes; Arakelov theory; heights
14L99 Algebraic groups
14H52 Elliptic curves
14G25 Global ground fields in algebraic geometry
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