Thinness conjecture for geometrically incompatible covers

Let XX be a smooth uniruled variety over a number field FF and let LL be a big and nef Q\mathbb Q-divisor on XX. For every FF-morphism f:YXf:Y\to X from a smooth projective variety YY, assume that ff is generically finite onto its image. Let a(X,L)a(X,L) and b(F,X,L)b(F,X,L) be the associated geometric invariants. Thinness conjecture for incompatible covers. As ff varies over all such morphisms for which either fLf^*L is not big or

(a(Y,fL),b(F,Y,fL))>(a(X,L),b(F,X,L))(a(Y,f^*L),b(F,Y,f^*L))>(a(X,L),b(F,X,L))

in the lexicographic order, the set

ff(Y(F))\bigcup_f f(Y(F))

is contained in a thin subset of X(F)X(F). This conjecture asserts that all contributions violating the expected Manin growth data can be removed simultaneously by a thin set; it is presented as the mechanism preventing these geometric incompatibilities from obstructing the thin-set version of Manin's conjecture.

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Brian Lehmann and Sho Tanimoto, “On the geometry of thin exceptional sets in Manin's Conjecture”, arXiv:1607.03499 (2017).

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