Uniform bounds for periods of endomorphisms of varieties (Q2220459)

Let \(K\) be a finite extension of \({\mathbb Q}_{p}\) and \(R\) be its ring of integers. Assume that \(X\) is an algebraic variety, defined as the common zeroes of polynomials with coefficients in \(R\), and that \(f:X \to X\) is an endomorphim, also defined over \(R\). A point \(P \in X\) is a periodic point of \(f\) if there is a positive integer \(n\) with \(f^{n}(P)=P\). The minimal of these integers \(n\) is called the primitive period of \(P\). Let \(P \in X(R)\) (i.e, a \(R\)-rational point of \(X\)) be a periodic point with primitive period \(n\). The main result of this paper is an explicit upper bound for \(n\) in terms of the residue field of \(K\) and the valuation of \(K\). The proof is short (just two pages). This result is related to Morton-Silverman's Conjecture on the existence of an upper bound \(C(D,N,d)\) for the cardinality of preperiodic \(K\)-rational points of \(f\) in the case that \(K\) is a finite extesion of degree \(D\) of \({\mathbb Q}\), \(X={\mathbb P}^{N}\) and \(f\) has degree \(d\).