The liminf Height Gap Conjecture

Let XX be a quasi-projective variety, let Φ ⁣:XX\Phi\colon X\dashrightarrow X be a rational self-map, and let f ⁣:XP1f\colon X\dashrightarrow \mathbb{P}^1 be a non-constant rational function, all defined over Q\overline{\mathbb{Q}}. Let XΦ,f(Q)X_{\Phi,f}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}) denote the points whose forward Φ\Phi-orbits avoid the indeterminacy loci of both Φ\Phi and ff, and let OΦ(x){\mathcal O}_\Phi(x) denote the forward orbit of xx. Let hh be the absolute logarithmic Weil height. The liminf Height Gap Conjecture. If XX is irreducible and OΦ(x){\mathcal O}_\Phi(x) is Zariski dense in XX, then

lim infnh(f(Φn(x)))logn>0.\liminf_{n\to\infty} \frac{h(f(\Phi^n(x)))}{\log n}>0.

This conjecture was introduced to imply the Dynamical Mordell--Lang Conjecture. The source does not state a proof or disproof of this liminf conjecture; its status is therefore open, although the paper proves the liminf statement away from a set of density zero.

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Jason P. Bell, Fei Hu and Matthew Satriano, “Height Gap Conjectures, D-Finiteness, and Weak Dynamical Mordell-Lang”, arXiv:2003.01255 (2020).

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