Markov processes and some PCF quadratic polynomials

DOI10.1007/S40993-019-0165-YMaRDI QIDQ2320014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vefa Goksel

Publication date 21 August 2019

Published in Research in Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09461

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism group of the rooted binary treeMarkov processpost-critically finite

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11R32) Polynomials in general fields (irreducibility, etc.) (12E05) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Dynamical systems over global ground fields (37P15)

Abstract: For any $ngeq1$, let $T_n$ be the complete binary rooted tree of height $n$, and $f(x)=(x+a{)}^2-a-1$ such that $aeqpm{b}^2$ for any $binmathbbZ$. In cite{Settled}, Jones and Boston empirically observed that iteratively applying a certain Markov process on the factorization types of $f$ gives rise to certain permutation groups $M_n(f)leqextAut(T_n)$ for $nleq5$. We prove a refined version of this phenomenon for all $n$, and for all the irreducible post-critically finite quadratic polynomials with integer coefficients, except for certain conjugates of $x^2-2$. We do this by constructing these groups explicitly. Although there have already been some conjectures relating the Markov processes to the dynamics of quadratic polynomials, our results are the first to prove such a connection. If $f(x)inmathbbZ[x]$ is a post-critically finite quadratic polynomial, and $G_n(f)$ is the Galois group of $f^n$ over $mathbbQ(i)$, then we conjecture that for all $ngeq1$, $M_n(f)$ contains a subgroup isomorphic to $G_n(f)$, analogous to the role of Mumford-Tate groups in the classical arithmetic geometry. We provide evidence that this is implied by a purely group theoretical statement.

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Cited in

(8)

• Settled elements in profinite groups
• A refined conjecture for factorizations of iterates of quadratic polynomials over finite fields
• On Markov processes with polynomial conditional moments
• Markov Processes Involving q-Stirling Numbers
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• A local-global conjugacy question arising from arithmetic dynamics

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