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Recently G. Wüstholz [5], [6] proved a theorem in transcendence which includes and greatly extends many classical results. In particular it generalizes Baker’s famous theorem [2] on linear forms in logarithms, and places it within the context of arbitrary commutative group varieties.
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Masser, D.W., Wüstholz, G. (1987). Another Note on Baker’s Theorem. In: Adolphson, A.C., Conrey, J.B., Ghosh, A., Yager, R.I. (eds) Analytic Number Theory and Diophantine Problems. Progress in Mathematics, vol 70. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4816-3_16
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