%0 Journal Article
%T The infimum in the metric Mahler measure
%A Charles L. Samuels
%J Mathematics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%X Dubickas and Smyth defined the metric Mahler measure on the multiplicative group of non-zero algebraic numbers. The definition involves taking an infimum over representations of an algebraic number $\alpha$ by other algebraic numbers. We verify their conjecture that the infimum in its definition is always achieved as well as establish its analog for the ultrametric Mahler measure.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4165v1