Northcott numbers for generalized weighted Weil heights
Volume 217 / 2025
                    
                    
                        Acta Arithmetica 217 (2025), 235-259                    
                                        
                        MSC: Primary 11G50; Secondary 11C20, 15B33                    
                                        
                        DOI: 10.4064/aa230919-9-7                    
                                            
                            Published online: 17 January 2025                        
                                    
                                                Abstract
We give a generalization of weighted Weil heights. These heights generalize both Weil’s heights and Dobrowolski’s height. We study Northcott numbers for our heights. Our results generalize the authors’ former work on Vidaux and Videla’s question about Northcott numbers. As an application, we evaluate Northcott numbers for Talamanca’s spectral height on matrices.