Zhang's dynamical Manin–Mumford conjecture

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Let XX be a variety and let Φ:X→X\Phi:X\to X be a dominant map. A point of XX is preperiodic for Φ\Phi if its forward orbit under Φ\Phi is finite, and a subvariety YY is preperiodic if some two iterates Φm(Y)\Phi^m(Y) and Φn(Y)\Phi^n(Y) with m<nm<n are equal. Zhang's dynamical Manin–Mumford conjecture. The subvariety YY contains a Zariski dense subset of preperiodic points if and only if YY is preperiodic.

This generalizes the Manin–Mumford conjecture for subvarieties of abelian varieties containing infinitely many torsion points. The status evidence supplied with the candidate says that the conjecture is a generalization of Raynaud's proved Manin–Mumford theorem, but does not establish resolution of the dynamical statement itself.

References

Primary source

Annie Carter, Matilde Lalín, Michelle Manes and Alison Beth Miller, “Dynamical Mahler Measure: A survey and some recent results”, arXiv:2204.04101 (2022).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1602.04253, arXiv:0808.3263.

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