Interior conjecture for fixed points of finitely generated Galois subgroups on curves

Let KK be an infinite field, let XX be a curve over KK, let KsepK^{\operatorname{sep}} be a separable closure of KK, and let GKG_K be the absolute Galois group of KK. For nNn\in\mathbb{N} and (σ1,,σn)GKn(\sigma_1,\ldots,\sigma_n)\in G_K^n, write X(Ksep)σ1,,σnX(K^{\operatorname{sep}})^{\langle\sigma_1,\ldots,\sigma_n\rangle} for the points fixed by the subgroup generated by the σi\sigma_i. Interior conjecture. The set

{(σ1,,σn)GKn ⁣:X(Ksep)σ1,,σn=}GKn\{(\sigma_1,\ldots,\sigma_n)\in G_K^n\colon |X(K^{\operatorname{sep}})^{\langle\sigma_1,\ldots,\sigma_n\rangle}|=\infty\}\subset G_K^n

has non-empty interior. The preceding corollary establishes this for hyperelliptic curves over infinite fields of characteristic different from 22; the conjecture asks for the same conclusion for every curve over every infinite field.

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Bo-Hae Im and Michael Larsen, “Some Applications of the Hales-Jewett Theorem to Field Arithmetic”, arXiv:1202.1185 (2012).

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