Kawaguchi–Silverman conjecture for surjective endomorphisms

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Let f:X→Xf:X\to X be a surjective endomorphism of a projective variety XX defined over Q‾\overline{\mathbb{Q}}. For x∈X(Q‾)x\in X(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}), write

Of(x):={fn(x)∣n≥0}.O_f(x):=\{f^n(x)\mid n\geq 0\}.

Assume that Of(x)O_f(x) is Zariski dense in XX.

Kawaguchi–Silverman conjecture. The arithmetic degree at xx equals the dynamical degree of ff:

αf(x)=δf.\alpha_f(x)=\delta_f.

This conjecture compares arithmetic complexity along a forward orbit with the geometric complexity of the dynamical system. It is stated here for surjective endomorphisms, while the original formulation concerns dominant self-maps.

References

Primary source

Sheng Meng, Long Wang and Tianle Yang, “Dynamical Iitaka theory on Fano contractions”, arXiv:2506.16057 (2025).

Additional references

32 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2408.01559, arXiv:2408.00566, arXiv:2407.03097, arXiv:2402.12678, arXiv:2401.09821, arXiv:2401.04386, arXiv:2401.11982, arXiv:2311.15489, arXiv:2311.16369, arXiv:2310.03313, arXiv:2309.07005, arXiv:2212.01909, and 19 more.

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