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Counting the number of $m$-periodic $\mathcal{O}_{K}$-points of a discrete dynamical system with applications from arithmetic statistics, V

Number Theory 2026-02-24 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In this follow-up paper, we again inspect a surprising relationship between the set of mm-periodic points of a polynomial map φd,c\varphi_{d, c} defined by φd,c(z)=zd+c\varphi_{d, c}(z) = z^d + c for all c,zOKc, z \in \mathcal{O}_{K} and the coefficient cc, where KK is any number field of degree n2n\geq 2, d>2d>2 is an integer and mZ2m\in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 2} is any fixed (period). As before, we again study counting problems which are inspired by advances on mm-torsion point-counting in arithmetic statistics and mm-periodic point-counting in arithmetic dynamics. In doing so, we then first prove that for any prime p3p\geq 3 and for any fixed Z1\ell\in \mathbb{Z}_{ \geq 1} and (period) mZ2m\in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 2}, the average number of distinct mm-periodic integral points of any φp,c\varphi_{p^{\ell}, c} modulo prime ideal pOKp\mathcal{O}_{K} is unbounded or zero as cc tends to infinity. Motivated further by KK-rational periodic point-counting work of Benedetto along with conjectural work of Hutz on mm-periodic points of any φ(p1),c\varphi_{(p-1)^{\ell}, c} for any prime p5p\geq 5 and any fixed Z1\ell \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 1} in arithmetic dynamics, we then also prove that for any fixed (period) mZ2m\in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 2}, the average number of distinct mm-periodic integral points of any φ(p1),c\varphi_{(p-1)^{\ell}, c} modulo prime pOKp\mathcal{O}_{K} is 11 or 22 or 00 as cc\to \infty. Finally, we then apply here density, polynomial-counting, field-counting, and Sato-Tate equidistribution results from arithmetic statistics, and thereby obtaining further counting and statistical results on the irreducible monic polynomials, Artin-Mazur zeta functions, algebraic number fields, and lastly on Artin LL-functions arising naturally in our polynomial discrete dynamical settings.

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@article{arxiv.2508.16393,
  title  = {Counting the number of $m$-periodic $\mathcal{O}_{K}$-points of a discrete dynamical system with applications from arithmetic statistics, V},
  author = {Brian Kintu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16393},
  year   = {2026}
}

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