Unlikely intersections for curves in additive groups over positive characteristic

Abstract

The conjectures associated with the names of Zilber-Pink greatly generalize results associated with the names of Manin-Mumford and Mordell-Lang, but unlike the latter they are at present restricted to zero characteristic. Recently the second author made a start on removing this restriction by studying multiplicative groups over positive characteristic, and here we go further for additive groups with extra Frobenius structure. We state a conjecture for curves in general dimension and we prove it in three dimensions. We also give an example where the finite set in question can be explicitly determined.