Chabauty--Kim, finite descent, and the Section Conjecture for locally geometric sections
Number Theory
2026-04-14 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
Let be a smooth projective curve of genus over a number field. A natural variant of Grothendieck's Section Conjecture postulates that every section of the fundamental exact sequence for which everywhere locally comes from a point of in fact globally comes from a point of . We show that satisfies this version of the Section Conjecture if it satisfies Kim's Conjecture for almost all choices of auxiliary prime , and give the appropriate generalisation to -integral points on hyperbolic curves. This gives a new "computational" strategy for proving instances of this variant of the Section Conjecture, which we carry out for the thrice-punctured line over .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.09462,
title = {Chabauty--Kim, finite descent, and the Section Conjecture for locally geometric sections},
author = {L. Alexander Betts and Theresa Kumpitsch and Martin Lüdtke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09462},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
51 pages; minor revision; appendix rewritten, 'finite descent' added to the title