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A sort of Polymath on a famous MathOverflow problem

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Is there any polynomials {P} of two variables with rational coefficients, such that the map P: \mathbb Q \times \mathbb Q \to \mathbb Q  is a bijection?  This is a famous 9-years old open question on MathOverflow.  Terry Tao initiated a sort of polymath attempt to solve this problem conditioned on some conjectures from arithmetic algebraic geometry.  This project is based on an plan by Tao for a solution, similar to a 2009 result by Bjorn Poonen who showed that conditioned on the Bombieri-Lang conjecture, there is a polynomial so that the map P: \mathbb Q \to \mathbb Q \times \mathbb Q  is injective. (Poonen’s result  answered a question by Harvey Friedman from the late 20th century, and is related also to a question by Don Zagier.)


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