Adelic Zariski dense orbit conjecture

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Assume that the transcendence degree of the algebraically closed field k\mathbf{k} over Q\mathbb{Q} is finite. Let XX be an irreducible variety over k\mathbf{k} and let f:X⇢Xf:X\dashrightarrow X be a dominant rational map. Write k(X)f\mathbf{k}(X)^f for the field of ff-invariant rational functions, and let X(k)fX(\mathbf{k})_f be the set of points whose ff-orbit is well-defined. If k(X)f=k\mathbf{k}(X)^f=\mathbf{k}, then there exists a non-empty adelic open subset A⊆X(k)A\subseteq X(\mathbf{k}) such that the orbit of every point x∈A∩X(k)fx\in A\cap X(\mathbf{k})_f is Zariski dense in XX.

Adelic Zariski dense orbit conjecture. The stated adelic-open-set conclusion holds.

This is a strengthening of the Zariski-topology version: rather than asserting only the existence or Zariski density of suitable starting points, it gives an adelic open set all of whose points with well-defined orbit have dense orbit. The supplied text attributes the proposal to Xie and leaves the general statement unresolved.

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  1. Adelic Zariski Dense Orbit Conjecture

    Let k\mathbf{k} be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 00 whose transcendence degree over Q\mathbb{Q} is finite, and let XX be a variety over k\mathbf{k}. Let f ⁣:X⇢Xf\colon X\dashrightarrow X be a dominant rational map, and write k(X)f={g∈k(X):f∗g=g}\mathbf{k}(X)^f=\{g\in\mathbf{k}(X):f^*g=g\}. For x∈X(k)x\in X(\mathbf{k}), write Of(x)={fn(x)∣n≥0}O_f(x)=\{f^n(x)\mid n\geq 0\} when every iterate is defined. Adelic Zariski Dense Orbit Conjecture. If k(X)f=k\mathbf{k}(X)^f=\mathbf{k}, then there exists a nonempty adelic open subset A⊆X(k)A\subseteq X(\mathbf{k}) such that for every x∈Ax\in A, the ff-orbit is well-defined and Zariski dense in XX.

    This strengthens the Zariski Dense Orbit Conjecture by requiring every point in a nonempty adelic open set to have a well-defined Zariski dense orbit. Its status is not specified in the supplied text.

    source: Jia Jia, Takahiro Shibata, Junyi Xie and De-Qi Zhang, “Endomorphisms of quasi-projective varieties – towards Zariski dense orbit and Kawaguchi-Silverman conjectures”, arXiv:2104.05339 (2024).

References

Primary source

Sheng Meng and De-Qi Zhang, “Advances in the equivariant minimal model program and their applications in complex and arithmetic dynamics”, arXiv:2311.16369 (2023).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2005.03628, arXiv:1905.07021.

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