Strongly semistable sheaves and the Mordell–Lang conjecture over function fields
We give a new proof of the Mordell–Lang conjecture in positive characteristic, in the situation where the variety under scrutiny is a smooth subvariety of an abelian variety. Our proof is based on the theory of semistable sheaves in positive characteristic, in particular on Langer’s theorem that the...
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| description | We give a new proof of the Mordell–Lang conjecture in positive characteristic, in the situation where the variety under scrutiny is a smooth subvariety of an abelian variety. Our proof is based on the theory of semistable sheaves in positive characteristic, in particular on Langer’s theorem that the Harder–Narasimhan filtration of sheaves becomes strongly semistable after a finite number of iterations of Frobenius pull-backs. The interest of this proof is that it provides simple effective bounds (depending on the degree of the canonical line bundle) for the degree of the isotrivial finite cover whose existence is predicted by the Mordell–Lang conjecture. We also present a conjecture on the Harder–Narasimhan filtration of the cotangent bundle of a smooth projective variety of general type in positive characteristic and a conjectural refinement of the Bombieri–Lang conjecture in positive characteristic. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:258cd0e6-a4d9-438c-90b4-9494345f07ae2022-03-26T11:56:16ZStrongly semistable sheaves and the Mordell–Lang conjecture over function fieldsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:258cd0e6-a4d9-438c-90b4-9494345f07aeSymplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer2019Rössler, DWe give a new proof of the Mordell–Lang conjecture in positive characteristic, in the situation where the variety under scrutiny is a smooth subvariety of an abelian variety. Our proof is based on the theory of semistable sheaves in positive characteristic, in particular on Langer’s theorem that the Harder–Narasimhan filtration of sheaves becomes strongly semistable after a finite number of iterations of Frobenius pull-backs. The interest of this proof is that it provides simple effective bounds (depending on the degree of the canonical line bundle) for the degree of the isotrivial finite cover whose existence is predicted by the Mordell–Lang conjecture. We also present a conjecture on the Harder–Narasimhan filtration of the cotangent bundle of a smooth projective variety of general type in positive characteristic and a conjectural refinement of the Bombieri–Lang conjecture in positive characteristic. |
| spellingShingle | Rössler, D Strongly semistable sheaves and the Mordell–Lang conjecture over function fields |
| title | Strongly semistable sheaves and the Mordell–Lang conjecture over function fields |
| title_full | Strongly semistable sheaves and the Mordell–Lang conjecture over function fields |
| title_fullStr | Strongly semistable sheaves and the Mordell–Lang conjecture over function fields |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strongly semistable sheaves and the Mordell–Lang conjecture over function fields |
| title_short | Strongly semistable sheaves and the Mordell–Lang conjecture over function fields |
| title_sort | strongly semistable sheaves and the mordell lang conjecture over function fields |
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