Zhang's Zariski dense orbit conjecture for polarized endomorphisms

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Let k{\mathbf{k}} be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 00. Let XX be an irreducible projective variety over k{\mathbf{k}}, and let f:X→Xf:X\to X be a polarized endomorphism, meaning that there are an ample line bundle LL on XX and an integer d>1d>1 such that f∗L=L⊗df^*L=L^{\otimes d}. For x∈X(k)x\in X({\mathbf{k}}), write

Of(x):={fn(x)∣n≥0}.O_f(x):=\{f^n(x)\mid n\geq 0\}.

Zhang's conjecture. There exists a point x∈X(k)x\in X({\mathbf{k}}) whose orbit Of(x)O_f(x) is Zariski dense in XX. This is a polarized special case of the Zariski dense orbit problem and is implied by the broader conjecture above; it remains open in general.

References

Primary source

Junyi Xie, “The existence of Zariski dense orbits for endomorphisms of projective surfaces (with an appendix in collaboration with Thomas Tucker)”, arXiv:1905.07021 (2021).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1511.00793, arXiv:1510.07684, arXiv:1407.1558, arXiv:0901.2352.

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