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Preperiodic points for quadratic polynomials over cyclotomic quadratic fields

Dynamical Systems 2021-08-12 v4 Algebraic Geometry Number Theory

Abstract

Given a number field KK and a polynomial f(z)K[z]f(z) \in K[z] of degree at least 2, one can construct a finite directed graph G(f,K)G(f,K) whose vertices are the KK-rational preperiodic points for ff, with an edge αβ\alpha \to \beta if and only if f(α)=βf(\alpha) = \beta. Restricting to quadratic polynomials, the dynamical uniform boundedness conjecture of Morton and Silverman suggests that for a given number field KK, there should only be finitely many isomorphism classes of directed graphs that arise in this way. Poonen has given a conjecturally complete classification of all such directed graphs over Q\mathbb{Q}, while recent work of the author, Faber, and Krumm has provided a detailed study of this question for all quadratic extensions of Q\mathbb{Q}. In this article, we give a conjecturally complete classification like Poonen's, but over the cyclotomic quadratic fields Q(1)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-1}) and Q(3)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-3}). The main tools we use are dynamical modular curves and results concerning quadratic points on curves.

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@article{arxiv.1801.09003,
  title  = {Preperiodic points for quadratic polynomials over cyclotomic quadratic fields},
  author = {John R. Doyle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09003},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v4 includes a few more details, especially toward the end of Section 3 and in Appendix A. Other minor changes have been made. An additional Magma file (main.txt), containing calculations for the main body of the article, have been added as an ancillary file

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