Philippon's zero-height conjecture for subvarieties in polarized dynamical systems

Let (X,f,L)(X,f,\mathscr L) be a polarized dynamical system defined over a number field, and let YY be a subvariety of XX with canonical subvariety height h^L(Y)\hat h_{\mathscr L}(Y). A subvariety YY is preperiodic when there exist integers nn and m>0m>0 such that fn(Y)=fn+m(Y)f^n(Y)=f^{n+m}(Y). Philippon's zero-height conjecture. If

h^L(Y)=0,\hat h_{\mathscr L}(Y)=0,

then YY is preperiodic. Preperiodic subvarieties have canonical height zero, so the conjecture is the converse implication. The source attributes the question to Philippon and states that it is equivalent to the dynamical Bogomolov conjecture; it remains open in general, despite the known cases for abelian and related systems.

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Antoine Chambert-Loir, “Théorèmes d'équidistribution pour les systèmes dynamiques d'origine arithmétique”, arXiv:0812.0944 (2009).

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