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Galois uniformity in quadratic dynamics over rational function fields

Number Theory 2014-10-28 v4

Abstract

We prove that the arboreal Galois representation attached to a large class of quadratic polynomials defined over a field of rational functions in characteristic zero has finite index in the full automorphism group of the associated preimage tree. Moreover, we show that the index is bounded, in most cases, independently of the polynomial.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0630,
  title  = {Galois uniformity in quadratic dynamics over rational function fields},
  author = {Wade Hindes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0630},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Index bounds are improved, and a stability test (a finite test for the irreducibility of all iterates) is included

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