Computing points of small height for cubic polynomials

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2009.2.37zbMATH Open1194.37187arXiv0807.0468OpenAlexW2962782498MaRDI QIDQ2390627FDOQ2390627

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 31 July 2009

Published in: Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let f in Q[z] be a polynomial of degree d at least two. The associated canonical height hat{h}_f is a certain real-valued function on Q that returns zero precisely at preperiodic rational points of f. Morton and Silverman conjectured in 1994 that the number of such points is bounded above by a constant depending only on d. A related conjecture claims that at non-preperiodic rational points, hat{h}_f is bounded below by a positive constant (depending only on d) times some kind of height of f itself. In this paper, we provide support for these conjectures in the case d=3 by computing the set of small height points for several billion cubic polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0468

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zbMATH Keywords

Julia setspolynomial maps\(p\)-adic dynamicscanonical heightpreperiodic points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in number theory (11C08) Heights (11G50) Height functions; Green functions; invariant measures in arithmetic and non-Archimedean dynamical systems (37P30) Arithmetic and non-Archimedean dynamical systems involving polynomial and rational maps (37P05) Algebraic number theory: local fields (11S99) Dynamical systems over global ground fields (37P15) Non-Archimedean Fatou and Julia sets (37P40)

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