Periods of orbits modulo primes

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2009.03.007MaRDI QIDQ841267zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 15 September 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2009.03.007

Drinfel'd modules; higher-dimensional motives, etc. (11G09) Varieties over global fields (11G35) Heights (11G50) Arithmetic dynamics on general algebraic varieties (37P55)

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Let \(K\) be a global field and let \(V\) be a quasi-projective variety, embedded in \(\mathbb{P}^m_K\). Let \(d>1\) and let \(\Phi\) be an endomorphism of \(V\) which can be written using homogeneous polynomials of degree at most \(d\). Let \(\alpha \in V(K)\) and consider the orbit \(O(\alpha) := \{ \Phi^n(\alpha) : n \geq 0 \}\). For all but finitely many places \(v\) of \(K\) we may consider the reduced orbit \(O_v(\alpha) := \{ \Phi^n(\alpha \bmod v) : n \geq 0 \}\). Of course the latter is finite. The authors show a lower bound for the size of \(O_v(\alpha)\), for ``most \(v\). More specifically: assume that \(O(\alpha)\) is infinite. For a place \(v\) denote by \(N_v\) the cardinality of its residue field. The authors show that for every \(\epsilon < 1/\log d\) the set of \(v\) for which \(O_v(\alpha)\) has less than \(\varepsilon \log N_v\) elements has density zero. They also prove similar results for orbits under finitely generated monoids, and for orbits under \(\mathbb{F}_p[t]\) in Drinfeld modules.

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