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We derive explicit formulas for the resultants and discriminants of classical quasi-orthogonal polynomials, as a full generalization of the results of Dilcher and Stolarsky (2005) and Gishe and Ismail (2008). We consider a certain system of Diophantine equations, originally designed by Hausdorff (1909) as a simplification of Hilbert's solution (1909) of Waring's problem, and then create the relationship to quadrature formulas and quasi-Hermite polynomials. We reduce these equations to the existence problem of rational points on a hyperelliptic curve associated with discriminants of quasi-Hermite polynomials, and thereby show a nonexistence theorem for solutions of Hausdorff-type equations.

We generalize the division polynomials of elliptic curves to hyperelliptic Jacobians over the complex numbers. We construct them by using the hyperelliptic sigma function. Using the division polynomial, we describe a condition that a point on the Jacobian is a torsion point. We prove several properties of the division polynomials such as a determinantal expression and recurrence formulas. We also study relations among the sigma function, the division polynomials, and the canonical local height functions.

We estimate the bounds for the difference between the ordinary height and the canonical height on elliptic curves over number fields. Our result is an improvement of the recent result of Cremona, Prickett, and Siksek [J.E. Cremona, M. Prickett, S. Siksek, Height difference bounds for elliptic curves over number fields, J. Number Theory 116 (2006) 42-68]. Our bounds are usually sharper than the other known bounds.