Lang's conjecture relating entire curves and integral sets

Let XX be an algebraic variety defined over a number field KK. A holomorphic map f:CX(C)f:\mathbb{C}\to X(\mathbb{C}) is non-constant if it is not constant, and its image is Zariski dense if its Zariski closure is all of X(C)X(\mathbb{C}). An integral set on XX means a set of integral points in the usual arithmetic sense.

Lang's conjecture. There exists a non-constant holomorphic map

f:CX(C)f:\mathbb{C}\to X(\mathbb{C})

with Zariski dense image if and only if there is a finite field extension K/KK'/K such that XX admits an infinite, respectively Zariski dense, integral set.

This conjecture expresses the proposed correspondence between the diophantine behavior of varieties over number fields and their complex-analytic properties, with entire curves corresponding to infinite sets of integral points for non-compact varieties. The source presents it as part of a philosophy widely conjectured by Serge Lang and others; its resolution is not specified here.

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Primary source

Joerg Winkelmann, “Entire curves, Integral sets and Principal bundles”, arXiv:0808.3225 (2008).

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