Existential closedness conjecture for the modular jj-function and its derivatives

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Let J:H⁡→C⁡3J:\operatorname{\mathbb{H}}\to\operatorname{\mathbb{C}}^3 be defined by

J(z)=(j(z),j′(z),j”(z)),J(z)=(j(z),j'(z),j”(z)),

and extend it coordinatewise to H⁡n\operatorname{\mathbb{H}}^n, with graph ΓJ⊆H⁡n×C⁡3n\Gamma_J\subseteq\operatorname{\mathbb{H}}^n\times\operatorname{\mathbb{C}}^{3n}. A variety is called JJ-broad, JJ-free, or H⁡\operatorname{\mathbb{H}}-free according to the properties defined in the source. Existential closedness conjecture for JJ. If V⊆H⁡n×C⁡3nV\subseteq\operatorname{\mathbb{H}}^n\times\operatorname{\mathbb{C}}^{3n} is an irreducible JJ-broad, JJ-free and H⁡\operatorname{\mathbb{H}}-free variety defined over C⁡\operatorname{\mathbb{C}}, then

V∩ΓJ≠∅.V\cap\Gamma_J\neq\emptyset.

This extends the existential-closedness expectation from the modular jj-function to its first two derivatives; higher derivatives are algebraic over these and therefore do not add transcendence-theoretic information. The source proves related results for blurred jj-functions and derivatives, but does not resolve this conjecture.

References

Primary source

Vahagn Aslanyan and Jonathan Kirby, “Blurrings of the j-function”, arXiv:2005.10167 (2021).

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