Arbitrary-field fractional-power conjecture

Let KK be an arbitrary field and let gKXg\in K\langle X\rangle generate its own centralizer. Consider a pair (m,n)(m,n) with m,nNm,n\in\mathbb{N}, m,n2m,n\geq 2, and nmn\nmid m. Assume that g1/ng^{1/n} makes sense in K((X))K((X)), meaning that there is some hK((X))h\in K((X)) such that

g=hn.g=h^n.

Arbitrary-field fractional-power conjecture. Then gm/nK((X))g^{m/n}\in K((X)) has a monomial of positive degree containing a negative power of an indeterminate in XX.

This modifies the characteristic-zero fractional-power conjecture so that it can be stated over an arbitrary field, and the paper says it is equivalent to the characteristic-zero version when the characteristic is zero.

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Yun-Chang Li and Jie-Tai Yu, “Applications of degree estimate for subalgebras”, arXiv:1011.6551 (2010).

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