Everywhere eventual stability conjecture

Let KK be a field, let ϕK(z)\phi\in K(z) have degree d2d\geq 2, and let αP1(K)\alpha\in\mathbb{P}^1(K) be not periodic under ϕ\phi. For a point α\alpha\ne\infty, write (ϕ,α)(\phi,\alpha) as eventually stable over KK if, for coprime fn,gnK[z]f_n,g_n\in K[z] satisfying ϕn(z)=fn(z)/gn(z)\phi^n(z)=f_n(z)/g_n(z), the number of irreducible factors of fn(z)αgn(z)f_n(z)-\alpha g_n(z) in K[z]K[z], counted with multiplicity, is bounded independently of nn; for α=\alpha=\infty, use the number of irreducible factors of gn(z)g_n(z). If KK is a number field, then (ϕ,α)(\phi,\alpha) is eventually stable over KK. If KK is a function field and (ϕ,α)(\phi,\alpha) is not isotrivial, meaning that after conjugation by some μPGL2(K)\mu\in\operatorname{PGL}_2(\overline K) both ϕ\phi and α\alpha are defined over the field of constants, then (ϕ,α)(\phi,\alpha) is eventually stable over KK. Everywhere eventual stability conjecture. This holds for every number field and for every non-isotrivial pair over a function field. The conjecture extends known eventual-stability results and excludes the isotrivial function-field cases, where nonperiodic points need not exist under the relevant hypotheses.

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Rafe Jones and Alon Levy, “Eventually stable rational functions”, arXiv:1603.00673 (2017).

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