The Strong Main Conjecture for modular towers

Let JJ denote the relevant modular-tower data, let PCP_{\mathbf C} be the exceptional set of primes attached to the conjugacy classes C\mathbf C, and let Vp(J)\mathcal V_p(J) be the indicated collection of rank-one modules or tower data at pp. Write H(V×sJ,C)in,rd\mathcal H(V\times^s J,\mathbf C)^{\mathrm{in},\mathrm{rd}} for the corresponding inner reduced Hurwitz space.

Strong Main Conjecture. For all pPCp\notin P_{\mathbf C}, only finitely many VVp(J)V\in\mathcal V_p(J) give a space H(V×sJ,C)in,rd\mathcal H(V\times^s J,\mathbf C)^{\mathrm{in},\mathrm{rd}} having genus 00 or 11 components.

This is the strong modular-tower analogue of the behavior of modular curves: low-genus components should occur only finitely often away from the exceptional primes. The source presents it as an expectation and does not state a resolution.

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Michael D. Fried, “The Main Conjecture of Modular Towers and its higher rank generalization”, arXiv:math/0611594 (2006).

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