The classification of rational preperiodic points of quadratic polynomials over Q: A refined conjecture

DOI10.1007/PL00004405MaRDI QIDQ1127650zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bjorn Poonen

Publication date 13 December 1998

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9512217

zbMATH Keywords

2-descent on JacobiansChabauty-Coleman methodcurves of arbitrary genusgraph of rational preperiodic points of a quadratic polynomialnumber of preperiodic points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abelian varieties of dimension (> 1) (11G10) [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MSC%2011G30%20%22Curves+of+arbitrary+genus+or+genus+%28%0D%0Ae+1%29+over+global+fields%22 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25)

Abstract: We classify the graphs that can occur as the graph of rational preperiodic points of a quadratic polynomial over $$, assuming the conjecture that it is impossible to have rational points of period $4$ or higher. In particular, we show under this assumption that the number of preperiodic points is at most~$9$. Elliptic curves of small conductor and the genus~$2$ modular curves $X_1(13)$, $X_1(16)$, and $X_1(18)$ all arise as curves classifying quadratic polynomials with various combinations of preperiodic points. To complete the classification, we compute the rational points on a non-modular genus~$2$ curve by performing a $2$-descent on its Jacobian and afterwards applying a variant of the method of Chabauty and Coleman.

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