On preperiodic points of rational functions defined over F_p (t)

Abstract: Let

P i n m a t h b b P_{1} (m a t h b b Q)

be a periodic point for a monic polynomial with coefficients in

m a t h b b Z

. With elementary techniques one sees that the minimal periodicity of

P

is at most

2

. Recently we proved a generalization of this fact to the set of all rational functions defined over

m a t h b b Q

with good reduction everywhere (i.e. at any finite place of

m a t h b b Q

). The set of monic polynomials with coefficients in

m a t h b b Z

can be characterized, up to conjugation by elements in PGL

_{2} (m a t h b b Z)

, as the set of all rational functions defined over

m a t h b b Q

with a totally ramified fixed point in

m a t h b b Q

and with good reduction everywhere. Let

p

be a prime number and let

{m a t h b b F}_{p}

be the field with

p

elements. In the present paper we consider rational functions defined over the rational global function field

{m a t h b b F}_{p} (t)

with good reduction at every finite place. We prove some bounds for the cardinality of orbits in

{m a t h b b F}_{p} (t) c u p i n f t y

for periodic and preperiodic points.

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