Isolation or a positive-dimensional fixed subvariety in characteristic p

Let FF be a field of characteristic pp, let φ\varphi be an analytic map from the open unit polydisk in nn dimensions to itself, and let x=(0,,0)x=(0,\ldots,0) be a fixed point whose multipliers are all indifferent. Isolation-or-fixed-subvariety conjecture. Either xx is isolated as a periodic point of φ\varphi, or, for some iterate φk\varphi^{k}, there exists a pointwise fixed subvariety of positive dimension passing through xx. The conjecture is motivated by the characteristic-pp behavior that nonlinear low-degree terms of iterates can vanish after taking ppth iterates. If true, the source notes that it would imply isolation for every fixed point with nonrepelling multipliers.

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Alon Levy, “Isolated Periodic Points in Several Nonarchimedean Variables”, arXiv:1511.00793 (2015).

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