Kim's Selmer-dimension conjecture for hyperbolic curves

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Let F=QF=\mathbb{Q} and let XX be a hyperbolic curve. For the étale unipotent fundamental group UetU^{\mathrm{et}} and its level-nn quotient UnetU_n^{\mathrm{et}}, let Hf1(GT,Unet)H^1_f(G_T,U_n^{\mathrm{et}}) be the Selmer variety and let UnDR/F0U_n^{\mathrm{DR}}/F^0 be the corresponding de Rham quotient. Kim's Selmer-dimension conjecture. For some nn, possibly very large,

dimHf1(GT,Unet)<dim(UnDR/F0).{ \text{dim} } H^1_f(G_T,U_n^{\mathrm{et}})<{ \text{dim} }(U_n^{\mathrm{DR}}/F^0).

This dimension inequality is intended to force the image of the rational or integral points in the de Rham quotient into a proper Zariski-closed subset, yielding finiteness by a non-abelian analogue of Chabauty's method. The conjecture is presented as the key Diophantine finiteness hypothesis and remains open in the stated generality.

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Primary source

Minhyong Kim, “The unipotent Albanese map and Selmer varieties for curves”, arXiv:math/0510441 (2006).

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