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Common preperiodic points for quadratic polynomials

Dynamical Systems 2021-11-30 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

Let fc(z)=z2+cf_c(z) = z^2+c for cCc \in \mathbb{C}. We show there exists a uniform bound on the number of points in P1(C)\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{C}) that can be preperiodic for both fc1f_{c_1} and fc2f_{c_2} with c1c2c_1\not= c_2 in C\mathbb{C}. The proof combines arithmetic ingredients with complex-analytic; we estimate an adelic energy pairing when the parameters lie in Qˉ\bar{\mathbb{Q}}, building on the quantitative arithmetic equidistribution theorem of Favre and Rivera-Letelier, and we use distortion theorems in complex analysis to control the size of the intersection of distinct Julia sets. The proof is effective, and we provide explicit constants for each of the results.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1911.02458,
  title  = {Common preperiodic points for quadratic polynomials},
  author = {Laura DeMarco and Holly Krieger and Hexi Ye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02458},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Many minor corrections made for v2, particularly in section 6, and quantitative constants corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-23T12:07:34.236Z