Schoen's conjecture on products of curves dominating very general K3 surfaces

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Let SS be a very general K3 surface. A dominant rational map from the product of two smooth projective curves to SS is a rational map C×D⇢SC\times D\dashrightarrow S whose image is dense in SS. Schoen's conjecture. There can be no dominant rational map from the product of two smooth projective curves to SS. This expectation concerns the nonexistence of isotrivial families of smooth curves dominating a very general K3 surface; the source attributes it, as a question, to Schoen.

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Xi Chen and Frank Gounelas, “Isotrivial smooth curves on surfaces”, arXiv:2607.19256 (2026).

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