Solutions of Diophantine equations as periodic points of p-adic algebraic functions. I.

zbMATH Open1419.11059arXiv1410.4618MaRDI QIDQ739872FDOQ739872

Authors: Patrick Morton 

Publication date: 11 August 2016

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Solutions of the quartic Fermat equation in ring class fields of odd conductor over quadratic fields $K=mathbbQ(sqrt-d)$ with $-dequiv1$ (mod $8$) are shown to be periodic points of a fixed algebraic function $T(z)$ defined on the punctured disk $0<|z{|}_{2}lefrac12$ of the maximal unramified, algebraic extension $extsf{K}_2$ of the $2$-adic field $mathbb{Q}_2$. All ring class fields of odd conductor over imaginary quadratic fields in which the prime $p=2$ splits are shown to be generated by complex periodic points of the algebraic function $T$, and conversely, all but two of the periodic points of $T$ generate ring class fields over suitable imaginary quadratic fields. This gives a dynamical proof of a class number relation originally proved by Deuring. It is conjectured that a similar situation holds for an arbitrary prime $p$ in place of $p=2$, where the case $p=3$ has been previously proved by the author, and the case $p=5$ will be handled in Part II.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4618

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic pointsring class fieldsalgebraic function2-adic fieldquartic Fermat equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex multiplication and moduli of abelian varieties (11G15) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Elliptic curves over local fields (11G07) Algebraic functions and function fields in algebraic geometry (14H05)

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