On the Medvedev-Scanlon conjecture for minimal threefolds of nonnegative Kodaira dimension

zbMATH Open1455.14027arXiv1610.03858MaRDI QIDQ2407262FDOQ2407262

Authors: Jason P. Bell, Dragos Ghioca, Zinovy Reichstein, Matthew Satriano 

Publication date: 29 September 2017

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by work of Zhang from the early `90s, Medvedev and Scanlon formulated the following conjecture. Let $K$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$ and let $X$ be a quasiprojective variety defined over $K$ endowed with a dominant rational self-map $Phi$. Then there exists a point $alphainX(K)$ with Zariski dense orbit under $Phi$ if and only if $Phi$ preserves no nontrivial rational fibration, i.e., there exists no non-constant rational function $finK(X)$ such that $Ph{i}^{\ast }(f)=f$. The Medvedev-Scanlon conjecture holds when $K$ is uncountable. The case where $K$ is countable (e.g., $K=overlinemathbbQ$) is much more difficult; here the conjecture has only been proved in a small number of special cases. In this paper we show that the Medvedev-Scanlon conjecture holds for all varieties of positive Kodaira dimension, and explore the case of Kodaira dimension $0$. Our results are most complete in dimension $3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03858

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic dynamicsorbit closuresrational invariantsMedvedev-Scanlon conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametrization (Chow and Hilbert schemes) (14C05) Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Arithmetic and non-Archimedean dynamical systems (37P99)

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