Positive-density annihilating-differential conjecture

Let CC be a genus-22 curve with Jacobian JJ, and let ω\omega be an annihilating differential for the relevant Mordell–Weil subgroup. For each prime pp of good reduction, let ωp\omega_p be a suitably scaled annihilating differential and let ωˉp\bar{\omega}_p denote its reduction on C(Fp)C(\mathbb F_p). Say that JJ splits if it is isogenous over Q\mathbb Q to a product of elliptic curves E×EE\times E'. In the split case, let ω\omega be the associated global annihilating differential.

Positive-density conjecture. The set of primes pp of good reduction for CC such that ωˉp\bar{\omega}_p does not vanish on C(Fp)C(\mathbb F_p) has positive density, unless JJ splits and ω\omega vanishes at a rational point of CC.

Such primes are needed to choose a modulus for the Mordell–Weil sieve combined with Chabauty. The source gives no resolution of this conjecture; the stated exception reflects the obstruction arising from a split Jacobian.

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Primary source

Michael Stoll, “Determining the rational points on a curve of genus 2 and Mordell-Weil rank 1”, arXiv:2509.24604 (2025).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2409.19195, arXiv:2206.06296, arXiv:1902.05666.

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