This text is devoted to the following result, stemming out works of Bombieri,
Masser, Zannier, and Maurin: Let $X$ be an complex algebraic (projective,
connected) curve and let us consider $n$ rational functions $f_1,...,f_n$ on
$X$ which are multiplicatively independent. The points $x$ of $X$ where their
values $f_1(x),...,f_n(x)$ satisfy at least two independent multiplicative
dependence relations form a finite set.
This paper has two goals. The first is to present the construction, due to
the author, of measures on non-archimedean analytic varieties associated to
metrized line bundles and some of its applications. We take this opportunity to
add remarks, examples and mention related results.
We establish asymptotic formulae for volumes of height balls in analytic
varieties over local fields and in adelic points of algebraic varieties over
number fields, relating the Mellin transforms of height functions to Igusa
integrals and to global geometric invariants of the underlying variety. In the
adelic setting, this involves the construction of general Tamagawa measures.