Fixed points of polynomials over division rings

DOI10.1017/S0004972721000113MaRDI QIDQ4959269zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Chapman, Solomon Vishkautsan

Publication date 13 September 2021

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09793

zbMATH Keywords

division algebradivision ringfixed pointnoncommutative dynamical systemperiodic pointpolynomial ringstandard polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Ordinary and skew polynomial rings and semigroup rings (16S36) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Arithmetic properties of periodic points (37P35)

Abstract: We study the discrete dynamics of standard (or left) polynomials $f(x)$ over division rings $D$. We define their fixed points to be the points $lambdainD$ for which $f^{circn}(lambda)=lambda$ for any $ninmathbbN$, where $f^{circn}(x)$ is defined recursively by $f^{circn}(x)=f(f^{circ(n-1)}(x))$ and $f^{circ1}(x)=f(x)$. Periodic points are similarly defined. We prove that $lambda$ is a fixed point of $f(x)$ if and only if $f(lambda)=lambda$, which enables the use of known results from the theory of polynomial equations, to conclude that any polynomial of degree $mgeq2$ has at most $m$ conjugacy classes of fixed points. We also consider arbitrary periodic points, and show that in general, they do not behave as in the commutative case. We provide a sufficient condition for periodic points to behave as expected.

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