Computing points of small height for cubic polynomials

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2009.2.37MaRDI QIDQ2390627zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 31 July 2009

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-adic dynamicscanonical heightJulia setspolynomial mapspreperiodic points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

For a polynomial \(\phi\in Q[X]\) with \(\deg\phi=d\geq2\) denote by \(\hat h_\phi\) the associated canonical height and let \(h\) denote the arithmetic height. The canonical weight vanishes at the preperiodic points of \(\phi\) and it is conjectured that for other rational points \(x\) the ratio \(\hat h_\phi(x)/h(x)\) is bounded from below by a positive value depending only on \(d\). The authors give support for this conjecture by searching for points with small such ratio for several billion cubic polynomials \(\phi\).

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