Zhang's relative dynamical Manin–Mumford conjecture for families

Let SS be a smooth irreducible quasi-projective variety over C{\mathbb C}, let KK be a positive integer, and let

Φ:S×PK→S×PK\Phi:S\times {\mathbb P}^K\to S\times {\mathbb P}^K

be a family of endomorphisms with Φ(s,p)=(s,Fs(p))\Phi(s,p)=(s,F_s(p)), where each FsF_s is an endomorphism of PK{\mathbb P}^K of degree greater than 11. Let X⊆S×PK\mathcal{X}\subseteq S\times {\mathbb P}^K be irreducible, dominant over SS, flat over SS, and suppose that Xs\mathcal{X}_s is preperiodic under FsF_s for a Zariski dense set of s∈Ss\in S. For a positive integer NN, let Φ×N\Phi^{\times N} and XN\mathcal{X}^N denote the NN-fold fiber products, and let rΦ×N,XNr_{\Phi^{\times N},\mathcal{X}^N} be the corresponding relative special dimension. Zhang's conjecture. For every positive integer NN,

T^Φ×N rΦ×N,XN∧[XN]≠0.\hat{T}^{\,r_{\Phi^{\times N},\mathcal{X}^N}}_{\Phi^{\times N}}\wedge [\mathcal{X}^N]\neq 0.

The conjecture is presented as a consequence of the DeMarco–Mavraki conjecture and extends the constant-family result that a family containing a Zariski dense set of periodic curves must itself be periodic. The source gives no resolution status.

References

Primary source

Chatchai Noytaptim and Xiao Zhong, “Unlikely intersections in families of polynomial skew products”, arXiv:2604.04881 (2026).

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