The Uniformity Conjecture over the rationals

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Let g≥2g\geq 2 be an integer. A smooth curve is a curve defined over Q\mathbb{Q}, and its rational points are its points over Q\mathbb{Q}. Uniformity Conjecture over Q\mathbb{Q}. For every integer g≥2g\geq 2 there exists an integer BgB_g such that any smooth curve defined over Q\mathbb{Q} has at most BgB_g rational points.

Faltings's theorem gives finiteness of the rational points on each smooth curve of genus at least 22, but the bound may depend on the curve. The conjecture asserts uniformity in the curve; it would follow from the Bombieri–Lang conjecture and is used in the paper for conditional combinatorial results.

References

Primary source

Mehdi Makhul, Oliver Roche-Newton, Sophie Stevens and Audie Warren, “The Elekes-Szabó Problem and the Uniformity Conjecture”, arXiv:2009.13258 (2020).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1606.09618, arXiv:1512.04907.

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