Roots of unity and higher ramification in iterated extensions

arXiv2211.02087MaRDI QIDQ6506957FDOQ6506957

Rafe Jones, Spencer Hamblen

Abstract: Given a field $K$, a rational function $phiinK(x)$, and a point $binmathbb{P}^1(K)$, we study the iterated extension $K(ph{i}^{-infty}(b))$ generated by the union over $n$ of all solutions to $ph{i}^n(x)=b$. We ask when a finite extension of $K(ph{i}^{-infty}(b))$ can contain all $m$-power roots of unity for some $mgeq2$, and prove that several families of rational functions do so. A motivating application is to understand the higher ramification filtration when $K$ is a finite extension of $Q_p$ and $p$ divides the degree of $phi$, especially when $phi$ is post-critically finite (PCF). We show that all higher ramification groups are infinite for new families of iterated extensions, for example those given by bicritical rational functions with periodic critical points. We also give new examples of iterated extensions with subextensions satisfying an even stronger ramification-theoretic condition called arithmetic profiniteness. We conjecture that every iterated extension arising from a PCF map should have a subextension with this stronger property, which would give a dynamical analogue of Sen's theorem for PCF maps.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ramification and extension theory (11S15) Arithmetic and non-Archimedean dynamical systems involving polynomial and rational maps (37P05) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18) Dynamical systems over non-Archimedean local ground fields (37P20) Dynamical systems over global ground fields (37P15)

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