Density-degree conjecture for products of hyperelliptic curves
Density-degree conjecture for products of hyperelliptic curves
Let and be hyperelliptic curves over , and let denote the density degree set of their product. Write for its least element.
Density-degree conjecture. Most pairs of hyperelliptic curves of sufficiently large genera satisfy
This is motivated by the fact that products of hyperelliptic curves have degree of irrationality and by expectations concerning the scarcity of unexpected rational and quadratic points, but the source leaves the precise meaning of “most” and the required genus threshold informal.
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Primary source
Nathan Chen and Olivier Martin, “A primer on measures of irrationality”, arXiv:2509.03783 (2025).
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