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Primitive prime divisors in the forward orbit of a polynomial

Number Theory 2025-02-06 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

For the polynomial f(z)Q[z]f(z) \in \mathbb{Q}[z], we consider the Zsigmondy set Z(f,0)\mathcal{Z}(f,0) associated to the numerators of the sequence {fn(0)}n0\{f^n(0)\}_{n \geq 0}. In this paper, we provide an upper bound on the largest element of Z(f,0)\mathcal{Z}(f, 0). As an application, we show that the largest element of the set Z(f,0)\mathcal{Z}(f,0) is bounded above by 66 when f(z)=zd+ze+cQ[z]f(z) = z^d + z^e +c \in \mathbb{Q}[z], with d>e2d>e \geq 2 and c>2|c|>2. Furthermore, when f(z)=zd+cQ[z]f(z) =z^d+c \in \mathbb{Q}[z] with f(0)>2dd1|f(0)| > 2^{\frac{d}{d-1}} and d>2d >2, we also deduce a result of Krieger [Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN, 23 (2013), pp. 5498-5525] as a consequence of our main result.

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@article{arxiv.2502.02600,
  title  = {Primitive prime divisors in the forward orbit of a polynomial},
  author = {Shanta Laishram and Sudhansu S. Rout and Prabhakar Yadav},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.02600},
  year   = {2025}
}

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