Intersecting curves and algebraic subgroups: Conjectures and more results

Bombieri, E.; Masser, D.; Zannier, U.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03810-9

Intersecting curves and algebraic subgroups: Conjectures and more results
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Abstract:

This paper solves in the affirmative, up to dimension $n=5$, a question raised in an earlier paper by the authors. The equivalence of the problem with a conjecture of Shou-Wu Zhang is proved in the Appendix.

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