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×PKS×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 XS×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 sSs\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×NrΦ×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.

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Primary source

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

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