Geometric Bombieri--Lang's special-locus conjecture

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Let K/kK/k be a finitely generated extension of fields of characteristic zero, with kk algebraically closed in KK. Define the algebraic special set Sp(X)\operatorname{Sp}(X) as the Zariski closure of the images of all non-constant rational maps from abelian varieties over K\overline K to XKX_{\overline K}. For a projective variety ZZ over KK, a constant model is a birational KK-map TKZT_K\dashrightarrow Z from a projective variety TT over kk, and its induced points are obtained on its maximal morphism locus from T(k)T(k). Geometric Bombieri--Lang's special-locus conjecture. If ZZ is the Zariski closure in XX of (XSp(X))(K)(X\setminus\operatorname{Sp}(X))(K), then there are finitely many distinct closed subvarieties Z1,,ZrZ_1,\ldots,Z_r of ZZ, containing all irreducible components of ZZ, such that each ZiZ_i is birationally constant and every point of (XSp(X))(K)(X\setminus\operatorname{Sp}(X))(K) is induced by one of these constant models. This is the more precise function-field formulation and remains open in general.

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Junyi Xie, “Recent progress on the geometric Bombieri–Lang conjecture”, arXiv:2607.02165 (2026).

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