Grothendieck's section conjecture for hyperbolic curves
Grothendieck's section conjecture for hyperbolic curves
Let be a smooth, geometrically connected, hyperbolic curve over a number field , with smooth completion and boundary . For each -rational cusp , let be the scheme of nearby points, and let denote the set of sections of , considered up to -conjugacy. The non-abelian Kummer map is denoted by . Grothendieck's section conjecture. The map
is bijective. Thus every section is either explained by a unique rational point or belongs to a packet of cuspidal sections based at a unique rational cusp. The conjecture is widely open in this generality: injectivity is known, while surjectivity remains the difficult part. The source notes that the conjecture predicts, in particular, that every Selmer section is rational or cuspidal.
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Primary source
Benjamin Steklov, “Fermat's Last Theorem for Selmer sections”, arXiv:2602.17746 (2026).
Additional references
12 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2409.07923, arXiv:2407.03248, arXiv:1902.02058, arXiv:1204.1260, arXiv:1111.1354, arXiv:1106.4255, arXiv:0906.0245, arXiv:0902.1653, arXiv:0809.0017, arXiv:0802.4125, arXiv:math/0703877.
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