The unlikely intersection bound with multiplicities
The unlikely intersection bound with multiplicities
Let be a number field, let be the generic point of , and let be an integral closed subscheme dominating . Put . Suppose that is not contained in any proper algebraic subgroup of . For a flat subgroup scheme , write for its complexity, and let denote the multiplicity of an irreducible component of the intersection.
Unlikely intersection bound. For every , there exists such that, for every flat subgroup scheme satisfying ,
The sum is over all irreducible components of that do not dominate . This is the unlikely-intersection refinement of the general bound: the generic-fiber noncontainment hypothesis and strict dimension inequality permit an arbitrarily small coefficient of the complexity term. The source presents it as conjectural and discusses particular instances and related known results.
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Francesco Campagna, Gabriel Andreas Dill and Robert Wilms, “Arithmetic unlikely intersections in powers of the multiplicative group”, arXiv:2607.15741 (2026).
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