The Bell–Ghioca–Tucker conjecture for intersections of two étale orbits

Let XX be a projective variety over Q\overline{\mathbb Q}, let HH be an ample R\mathbb R-divisor on XX over Q\overline{\mathbb Q}, and let f,g ⁣:XXf,g\colon X\longrightarrow X be étale endomorphisms over Q\overline{\mathbb Q} satisfying

fHδfH,gHδgHf^*H\equiv\delta_fH,\qquad g^*H\equiv\delta_gH

in NS(X)R\operatorname{NS}(X)_{\mathbb R} for some δf,δgR>1\delta_f,\delta_g\in\mathbb R_{>1}. For points P,QX(Q)P,Q\in X(\overline{\mathbb Q}), define

Sf,g(P,Q):={(m,n)fm(P)=gn(Q)}.S_{f,g}(P,Q):=\{(m,n)\mid f^m(P)=g^n(Q)\}.

Bell–Ghioca–Tucker conjecture. The set Sf,g(P,Q)S_{f,g}(P,Q) is a union of finitely many sets of the form

{(ai+bi,ci+di)Z0}\{(a_i+b_i\ell,c_i+d_i\ell)\mid \ell\in\mathbb Z_{\geq0}\}

for some non-negative integers ai,bi,ci,diZ0a_i,b_i,c_i,d_i\in\mathbb Z_{\geq0}. The conjecture is known when δf=δg\delta_f=\delta_g, but remains open in general.

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Primary source

Kaoru Sano, “Growth rate of ample heights and the dynamical Mordell-Lang type conjecture”, arXiv:1801.02831 (2018).

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