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Irreducibility of polynomials defining parabolic parameters of period 3

Number Theory 2025-09-29 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Morton and Vivaldi defined the polynomials whose roots are parabolic parameters for a one-parameter family of polynomial maps. We call these polynomials delta factors. They conjectured that delta factors are irreducible for the family zz2+cz\mapsto z^2+c. One can easily show the irreducibility for periods 11 and 22 by reducing it to the irreducibility of cyclotomic polynomials. However, for periods 33 and beyond, this becomes a challenging problem. This paper proves the irreducibility of delta factors for the period 33 and demonstrates the existence of infinitely many irreducible delta factors for periods greater than 33.

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@article{arxiv.2408.04850,
  title  = {Irreducibility of polynomials defining parabolic parameters of period 3},
  author = {Junnosuke Koizumi and Yuya Murakami and Kaoru Sano and Kohei Takehira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04850},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, One of the main theorem (theorem 1.2) is improved