Dilogarithms, Regulators and p-adic L-functions.
We present an overview of recent advances in diophantine approximation. Beginning with Roth's theorem, we discuss the Mordell conjecture and then pass on to recent higher dimensional results due to Faltings-Wustholz and to Faltings respectively.
We develop a formalism of direct images for metrized vector bundles in the context of the non-archimedean Arakelov theory introduced in our joint work with S. Bloch. We prove a Riemann-Roch-Grothendieck theorem for this direct image.
We prove a new lower bound for the height of points on a subvariety of a multiplicative torus, which lie outside the union of torsion subvarieties of . Although lower bounds for the heights of these points where already known (decreasing multi-exponential function of the degree for Scmhidt and Bombieri–Zannier, [Sch], [Bo-Za], and inverse monomial in the degree by the second author of this note and P. Philippon, [Da-Phi]), our method provesup to an the sharpest conjectures that can be formulated....