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On the frequency of primes preserving dynamical irreducibility of polynomials

Number Theory 2024-11-15 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Towards a well-known open question in arithmetic dynamics, L. M\'erai, A. Ostafe and I. E. Shparlinski (2023), have shown, for a class of polynomials fZ[X]f \in \mathbb Z[X], which in particular includes all quadratic polynomials, that, under some natural conditions (necessary for quadratic polynomials), the set of primes pp, such that all iterations of ff are irreducible modulo pp, is of relative density zero, with an explicit estimate on the rate of decay. This result relies on some bounds on character sums via the Brun sieve. Here we use the Selberg sieve and in some cases obtain a substantial quantitative improvement.

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@article{arxiv.2407.20464,
  title  = {On the frequency of primes preserving dynamical irreducibility of polynomials},
  author = {Alina Ostafe and Igor E. Shparlinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20464},
  year   = {2024}
}