Equidistribution in Families of Abelian Varieties and Uniformity

Abstract: Using equidistribution techniques from Arakelov theory as well as recent results obtained by Dimitrov, Gao, and Habegger, we deduce uniform results on the Manin-Mumford and the Bogomolov conjecture. For each given integer $g \geq 2$, we prove that the number of torsion points lying on a smooth complex algebraic curve of genus $g$ embedded into its Jacobian is uniformly bounded. Complementing recent works of Dimitrov, Gao, and Habegger, we obtain a rather uniform version of the Mordell conjecture as well. In particular, the number of rational points on a smooth algebraic curve defined over a number field can be bounded solely in terms of its genus and the Mordell-Weil rank of its Jacobian.