Eventual stability conjecture for reciprocal quadratic parameters

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Let a∈Za\in\mathbb{Z} with a∉{0,−1}a\notin\{0,-1\}. The rational map ϕ(z)=z2+1/a\phi(z)=z^2+1/a has degree two, and a pair (ϕ,α)(\phi,\alpha) is eventually stable when the number of irreducible factors in the iterated preimage polynomials of α\alpha is bounded independently of the iterate. Reciprocal quadratic eventual stability conjecture. The map z2+1/az^2+1/a is eventually stable over Q\mathbb{Q}. This is the exceptional reciprocal-integer family singled out after known results for quadratic polynomials; the source describes these cases as remaining unresolved apart from the obvious exceptions.

References

Primary source

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

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0612415.

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