Weighted greatest common divisors and weighted heights

Abstract

We introduce the weighted greatest common divisor of a tuple of integers and explore some of it basic properties. Furthermore, for a set of heights $\mathfrak w=(q_0, \ldots , q_n)$, we use the concept of the weighted greatest common divisor to define a height $\mathfrak{h} (\mathfrak p)$ on weighted projective spaces $\mathbb{WP}_{\mathfrak w}^n (k)$. We prove some of the basic properties of this weighted height, including an analogue of the Northcott's theorem for heights on projective spaces.