Faber–Voloch conjecture on Newton approximation
Let be a polynomial of degree with coefficients in a number field , and let . Define the Newton map
and, for each , set . Assume that the Newton approximation sequence is not eventually periodic. Let be the set of primes of for which converges in the completion to a root of . Faber–Voloch's conjecture. The natural density of the set is zero. This conjecture predicts that, outside the eventually periodic case, Newton approximation converges -adically to a root for a density-zero set of primes. The source presents it as a conjecture motivating the choice of polynomial, and no resolution is supplied here.
References
Primary source
Robert L. Benedetto, Xander Faber, Benjamin Hutz, Jamie Juul and Yu Yasufuku, “A large arboreal Galois representation for a cubic postcritically finite polynomial”, arXiv:1612.03358 (2017).
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