Unlikely intersections with Hecke translates of a special subvariety (Q2659429): Difference between revisions

This paper discusses some cases of the Zilber-Pink conjecture. Specifically, Conjecture 1.2 in the paper looks at the restriction of Zilber-Pink to look at the intersections of an irreducible algebraic curve \(V\subset S\) which is not contained in any proper special subvariety of \(S\), with a special subvariety \(S_{\mathbf{H}}\subset S\) of codimension atleast 2 (here \(S\) is a pure Shimura variety). On one hand the paper obtains a conditional result, where Conjecture 1.2 is proven under two arithmetic conjectures. This is not an uncommon feature in the area of Zilber-Pink problems as the proofs usually rely on the well-established Pila-Zannier strategy which combines o-minimality with point counting, and it is now well-understood that the arithmetic part is usually more difficult. But the paper also proves two unconditional cases of Conjecture 1.2 when the Shimura variety is of the form \(\mathcal{A}_{g}\times\mathcal{A}_{g}\), where \(g\geq 2\) and \(\mathcal{A}_{g}\) is the moduli space of principally polarised abelian varieties of dimension \(g\). Theorems 1.3 and 1.4 are the first proven cases of Zilber-Pink that do not fall under the setting of products of modular curves, or of the André-Oort conjecture. Aside from using the Pila-Zannier strategy, the proofs use previous results of the author and some recent functional transcendence results of \textit{Z. Gao} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 732, 85--146 (2017; Zbl 1422.11140)].