English

Attaining potentially good reduction in arithmetic dynamics

Number Theory 2015-01-05 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let K be a non-archimedean field, and let f in K(z) be a rational function of degree d>1. If f has potentially good reduction, we give an upper bound, depending only on d, for the minimal degree of an extension L/K such that f is conjugate over L to a map of good reduction. In particular, if d=2 or d is greater than the residue characteristic of K, the bound is d+1. If K is discretely valued, we give examples to show that our bound is sharp.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1312.4493,
  title  = {Attaining potentially good reduction in arithmetic dynamics},
  author = {Robert L. Benedetto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4493},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

17 pages; added Remark 3.5, on rationality of Julia sets, and Section 5, concerning totally ramified extensions

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