Eventually stable rational functions

DOI10.1142/S1793042117501263zbMATH Open1391.37072arXiv1603.00673OpenAlexW2964004910MaRDI QIDQ4595069FDOQ4595069

Alon Levy, Rafe Jones

Publication date: 28 November 2017

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

Abstract: For a field K, rational function phi in K(z) of degree at least two, and alpha in P^1(K), we study the polynomials in K[z] whose roots are given by the solutions to phi^n(z) = alpha, where phi^n denotes the nth iterate of phi. When the number of irreducible factors of these polynomials stabilizes as n grows, the pair (phi, alpha) is called eventually stable over K. We conjecture that (phi, alpha) is eventually stable over K when K is any global field and alpha any point not periodic under phi (an additional non-isotriviality hypothesis is necessary in the function field case). We prove the conjecture when K has a discrete valuation for which (1) phi has good reduction and (2) phi acts bijectively on all finite residue extensions. As a corollary, we prove for these maps a conjecture of Sookdeo on the finiteness of S-integral points in backwards orbits. We also give several characterizations of eventual stability in terms of natural finiteness conditions, and survey previous work on the phenomenon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00673

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zbMATH Keywords

irreducibility of polynomialsarithmetic dynamical system\(S\)-integer point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11R32) Polynomials in general fields (irreducibility, etc.) (12E05) Arithmetic and non-Archimedean dynamical systems involving polynomial and rational maps (37P05) Non-Archimedean dynamical systems (11S82) Dynamical systems over finite ground fields (37P25) Dynamical systems over global ground fields (37P15)

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