COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRAIC GROUPS
AND REFINEMENTS OF THE
GELFOND-FELDMAN MEASURE

DEANNA M. CAVENY

Abstract:

The main theorem of this paper is a measure of algebraic independence for numbers associated with a one-parameter subgroup of a commutative algebraic group defined over a number field. Qualitative results in this setting have been given by M. Waldschmidt, R. Tubbs and M. Ably, who provided measures as well. We refine Ably's quantitative results, separating the degree and the height in the limit case when the group contains a copy of the additive group of complex numbers, i.e., tex2html_wrap_inline11 . This new results provides several interesting corollaries, in particular, a generalization of G. Diaz's refined Gelfond-Feldman measure to higher dimensions and an improvement of Tubbs' elliptic Gelfond-Feldman measure.