Areal Weil Heights

In 2008, Pritsker introduced the areal Mahler measure, which is defined using an integral over the unit disk, as opposed to the classical Mahler measure which is defined using an integral over the unit circle. In this paper we introduce areal Weil heights, which generalize the areal Mahler measure to the adelic setting. We use the framework of adelic heights established by Favre and Rivera-Letelier and we construct a p-adic analog for the area measure on a disk in [Formula: see text]. We prove an analog of Kronecker’s theorem for areal Weil heights, which characterizes their essential minima and the points for which the essential minima are attained. Furthermore, we determine equidistribution theorems for areal Weil heights. In some cases, they have a unique limiting distribution for small points, while in others there are infinitely many limiting distributions. We conclude with examples. In one of our examples, we determine for which radii r there exist sequences of conjugate sets of algebraic integers which uniformly distribute to the disk D(0, r) [Formula: see text][Formula: see text], and we compute the limiting height for such sequences.