The height in terms of the normalizer of a stabilizer
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2008-05
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Garza, John Matthew, 1975-
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This dissertation is about the Weil height of algebraic numbers and the Mahler measure of polynomials in one variable. We investigate connections between the normalizer of a stabilizer and lower bounds for the Weil height of algebraic numbers. In the Archimedean case we extend a result of Schinzel [Sch73] and in the non-archimedean case we establish a result related to work of Amoroso and Dvornicich [Am00a]. We establish that amongst all polynomials in Z[x] whose splitting fields are contained in dihedral Galois extensions of the rationals, x³-x-1, attains the lowest Mahler measure different from 1.
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