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The height function on an abelian variety is addressed via an analogue of Mahler's measure function. It has previously been shown that the measure of a suitable polynomial yields the canonical height function on an elliptic curve; such work is generalised here to demonstrate that the canonical height on a higher-dimensional abelian variety may also be pursued from this viewpoint. Effective formulae which make use of the group law are given for the computation of local measures, and it is shown how these give rise to the construction of Riemann-style integrals on an abelian variety.
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Fhlathúin, B.n. (1996). The height on an abelian variety. In: Cohen, H. (eds) Algorithmic Number Theory. ANTS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1122. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61581-4_47
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