Weak Catenary Conjecture for differential varieties

Let VAnV \subseteq \mathbb A^n be a positive-dimensional irreducible differential variety, and let WVW \subseteq V be a zero-dimensional differential subvariety. Weak Catenary Conjecture. There is a proper irreducible differential subvariety V1V_1 of VV such that V1WV_1 \cap W \neq \emptyset and V1⊈WV_1 \not\subseteq W. This is a weaker form of the Kolchin catenary conjecture and would follow easily from it, but the source states that no proof is known.

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James Freitag, Omar Leon Sanchez and William Simmons, “On linear dependence over complete differential algebraic varieties”, arXiv:1401.6211 (2014).

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