Green–Griffiths conjecture on pseudo-hyperbolicity

Let VV be a variety. It is pseudo-hyperbolic if the locus of images of all nonconstant holomorphic maps f:CVf:{\mathbb C}\longrightarrow V is not Zariski dense. A variety is of general type when its canonical divisor has maximal Kodaira dimension.

Green–Griffiths conjecture. If VV is of general type, then VV is pseudo-hyperbolic.

The conjecture would imply that on a variety of general type the union of curves of genus less than 22 is not Zariski dense; in particular, a surface of general type would contain only finitely many curves of genus 00 and 11. The source mentions progress in dimension 22, but gives no resolution.

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Lucia Caporaso, “Moduli theory and arithmetic of algebraic varieties”, arXiv:math/0311465 (2003).

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