Tate–Voloch conjecture on torsion points and subvarieties

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Let KK be a field complete with respect to a non-archimedean absolute value, let A/KA/K be a semiabelian variety, and let X⊂AX \subset A be a closed subvariety. Tate–Voloch conjecture. There exists c>0c > 0 such that for every torsion point P∈A(K)P \in A(K), either P∈XP \in X or d(P,X)≥cd(P,X) \ge c. This conjecture predicts a uniform non-archimedean separation of torsion points from closed subvarieties when they do not lie on the subvariety; the supplied text attributes it to Tate and Voloch but gives no resolution status.

References

Primary source

Daniel Rodriguez, “A lower bound for the distance between CM points on Shimura curves”, arXiv:2607.23270 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2510.08786, arXiv:1602.04253, arXiv:1309.7237, arXiv:math/0512373.

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