Unlikely intersections with Hecke translates of a special subvariety

DOI10.4171/JEMS/1005MaRDI QIDQ2659429zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Orr

Publication date 26 March 2021

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04092

zbMATH Keywords

Hecke correspondencesShimura varietiesunlikely intersectionsZilber-Pink

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic aspects of modular and Shimura varieties (11G18) Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35)

Abstract: We prove some cases of the Zilber-Pink conjecture on unlikely intersections in Shimura varieties. Firstly, we prove that the Zilber-Pink conjecture holds for intersections between a curve and the union of the Hecke translates of a fixed special subvariety, conditional on arithmetic conjectures. Secondly, we prove the conjecture unconditionally for intersections between a curve and the union of Hecke correspondences on the moduli space of principally polarised abelian varieties, subject to some technical hypotheses. This generalises results of Habegger and Pila on the Zilber-Pink conjecture for products of modular curves. The conditional proof uses the Pila-Zannier method, relying on a point-counting theorem of Habegger and Pila and a functional transcendence result of Gao. The unconditional results are deduced from this using a variety of arithmetic ingredients: the Masser-W"ustholz isogeny theorem, comparison between Faltings and Weil heights, a super-approximation theorem of Salehi Golsefidy, and a result on expansion and gonality due to Ellenberg, Hall and Kowalski.

Review text

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)].

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