Zhang's finiteness conjecture for small specializations of sections

Let AT0A\to T^0 be a non-isotrivial family of abelian varieties over a number field KK, with generic fiber AηA_{\eta} simple of dimension at least two. A section P:T0AP:T^0\to A is non-torsion if it is not a torsion section, and hAt(Pt)h_{A_t}(P_t) denotes the canonical height of its specialization at tt. Zhang's conjecture. For each non-torsion section P:T0AP:T^0\to A defined over Q\overline{\mathbb{Q}}, there exists an ϵ>0\epsilon>0 such that

{tT0(Q):hAt(Pt)ϵ}\{t\in T^0(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}): h_{A_t}(P_t)\le\epsilon\}

is finite. The conjecture predicts a strong finiteness property for points where a non-torsion section specializes to a point of uniformly small canonical height; it would make simultaneous sequences of small specializations highly constrained. Its status is not resolved in the supplied source context.

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Alexander Carney, “Specialization of canonical heights on abelian varieties”, arXiv:2110.07664 (2021).

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