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Uniform Boundedness of S-Units in Arithmetic Dynamics

Number Theory 2016-01-20 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let K be a number field and let S be a finite set of places of K which contains all the Archimedean places. For any f(z) in K(z) of degree d at least 2 which is not a d-th power in \bar{K}(z), Siegel's theorem implies that the image set f(K) contains only finitely many S-units. We conjecture that the number of such S-units is bounded by a function of |S| and d (independently of K and f). We prove this conjecture for several classes of rational functions, and show that the full conjecture follows from the Bombieri--Lang conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1406.1990,
  title  = {Uniform Boundedness of S-Units in Arithmetic Dynamics},
  author = {Holly Krieger and Aaron Levin and Zachary Scherr and Thomas J. Tucker and Yu Yasufuku and Michael Zieve},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1990},
  year   = {2016}
}
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