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Uniform bounds on periodic points of polynomials with good reduction

Number Theory 2025-10-31 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We establish effective bounds on the number of periodic points of degree-dd polynomials ϕ\phi defined over pp-adic fields and number fields, under a mild reduction hypothesis that is satisfied by all unicritical polynomials Xd+cX^d + c with cc integral at some prime dividing dd. As a consequence, we verify the uniform boundedness conjecture for this class of polynomials over number fields KK, giving the explicit uniform bound #PerK(ϕ)d[K:Q]\#\mathrm{Per}_K(\phi) \leq d^{[K:\mathbb{Q}]}.

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@article{arxiv.2510.26119,
  title  = {Uniform bounds on periodic points of polynomials with good reduction},
  author = {Isaac Rajagopal and Robin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.26119},
  year   = {2025}
}

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