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In this talk, I will explain the recent applications of Arakelov theory to the Bogomolov Conjecture on small points.

The paper uses Iwasawa theory at the prime 𝑝=2 to prove non-vanishing theorems for the value at 𝑠=1 of the complex 𝐿-series of certain quadratic twists of the Gross family of elliptic curves with complex multiplication by the field 𝐾 = ℚ(√(-q)), where 𝑞 is any prime ≡ 7 mod 8. Our results establish some broad generalizations of the non-vanishing theorem first proven by Rohrlich using complex analytic methods. Such non-vanishing theorems are important because it is known that they imply the finiteness of the Mordell–Weil group and the Tate–Shafarevich group of the corresponding elliptic curves over the Hilbert class field of 𝐾. It is essential for the proofs to study the Iwasawa theory of the higher dimensional abelian variety with complex multiplication which is obtained by taking the restriction of scalars to 𝐾 of the particular elliptic curve with complex multiplication introduced by Gross.

We study the general problem of equidistribution of expanding translates of an analytic curve by an algebraic diagonal flow on the homogeneous space of a semisimple algebraic group G. We define two families of algebraic subvarieties of the associated partial flag variety, which give the obstructions to non-divergence and equidistribution. We apply this to prove that for Lebesgue almost every point on an analytic curve in the space of m × n real matrices whose image is not contained in any subvariety coming from these two families, Dirichlet’s theorem on simultaneous Diophantine approximation cannot be improved. The proof combines geometric invariant theory, Ratner’s theorem on measure rigidity for unipotent flows, and linearization technique.