Density-degree conjecture for products of hyperelliptic curves

From papers

Let CC and DD be hyperelliptic curves over Q\mathbb{Q}, and let δ(C×D/Q)\delta(C\times D/\mathbb{Q}) denote the density degree set of their product. Write minδ(C×D/Q)\min\delta(C\times D/\mathbb{Q}) for its least element.

Density-degree conjecture. Most pairs of hyperelliptic curves (C,D)(C,D) of sufficiently large genera satisfy

minδ(C×D/Q)=4.\min\delta(C\times D/\mathbb{Q})=4.

This is motivated by the fact that products of hyperelliptic curves have degree of irrationality 44 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.

Progress summary

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Nathan Chen and Olivier Martin, “A primer on measures of irrationality”, arXiv:2509.03783 (2025).

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.