Growth rate of ample heights and the Dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture

Abstract

We provide an explicit formula on the growth rate of ample heights of rational points under iteration of endomorphisms of smooth projective varieties over number fields. As an application, we give a positive answer to a variant of the Dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture for pairs of étale endomorphisms, which is also a variant of the original one stated by Bell, Ghioca, and Tucker in their monograph.