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Odoni's conjecture for number fields

Number Theory 2018-12-19 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let KK be a number field, and let d2d\geq 2. A conjecture of Odoni (stated more generally for characteristic zero Hilbertian fields KK) posits that there is a monic polynomial fK[x]f\in K[x] of degree dd, and a point x0Kx_0\in K, such that for every n0n\geq 0, the so-called arboreal Galois group Gal(K(fn(x0))/K)Gal(K(f^{-n}(x_0))/K) is an nn-fold wreath product of the symmetric group SdS_d. In this paper, we prove Odoni's conjecture when dd is even and KK is an arbitrary number field, and also when both dd and [K:Q][K:Q] are odd.

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@article{arxiv.1803.01987,
  title  = {Odoni's conjecture for number fields},
  author = {Robert L. Benedetto and Jamie Juul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01987},
  year   = {2018}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure

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