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Special regular polynomial skew products

Dynamical Systems 2026-04-15 v1 Algebraic Geometry Complex Variables

Abstract

We define a regular polynomial skew product (p(z),q(z,w))(p(z),q(z,w)) of C2\mathbb{C}^2 of degree d2d\geq 2 to be special if it is triangularly conjugate to a map of the form (p(z),q(w))(p(z),q(w)), where pp and qq are power maps or ±\pmChebyshev maps, or of the form (zd,Dd(w,ζzm))(z^d,D_d(w,\zeta z^m)), where ζd1=1\zeta^{d-1}=1, m{1,2}m\in\{1,2\}, and DdD_d is the Dickson polynomial of degree dd. We justify this definition by showing the following equivalence. (1) ff is special. (2) ff is semiconjugate to an affine self-map gg in skew product form of a 2-dimensional connected and commutative algebraic group GG over C\mathbb{C}. (3) All multipliers of ff are contained in a fixed number field KK. This generalizes the one-variable polynomial case.

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@article{arxiv.2604.12173,
  title  = {Special regular polynomial skew products},
  author = {Yugang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.12173},
  year   = {2026}
}

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