Poonen's finiteness conjecture for modular curves of fixed genus

Let X1(N)X_1(N) be the usual modular curve over Q\mathbb{Q}, and call a curve XX over Q\mathbb{Q} modular if there is a nonconstant morphism X1(N)XX_1(N)\to X over Q\mathbb{Q} for some NN. For each integer g2g\geq 2, consider modular curves XX of genus gg. Poonen's finiteness conjecture. For each g2g\geq 2, the set of modular curves over Q\mathbb{Q} of genus gg is finite. The paper contrasts this with the genus-00 and genus-11 cases, where infinitely many modular curves occur; the conjecture concerns finiteness in every fixed genus at least 22, and no resolution is given here.

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Matthew Baker, Enrique Gonzalez-Jimenez, Josep Gonzalez and Bjorn Poonen, “Finiteness results for modular curves of genus at least 2”, arXiv:math/0211394 (2003).

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