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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2013
We explain how the André–Oort conjecture for a general Shimura variety can be deduced from the hyperbolic Ax–Lindemann conjecture, a good lower bound for Galois orbits of special points and the definability, in the
$o$ -minimal structure
${ \mathbb{R} }_{\mathrm{an} , \mathrm{exp} } $ , of the restriction to a fundamental set of the uniformizing map of a Shimura variety. These ingredients are known in some important cases. As a consequence a proof of the André–Oort conjecture for projective special subvarieties of
${ \mathcal{A} }_{6}^{N} $ for an arbitrary integer
$N$ is given.