The finite-index criterion for arboreal Galois groups of quadratic rational maps
Let be the field from which the rational map is defined, let be a rational function of degree , and let be the complete rooted -ary tree attached to . Let be the image of the associated arboreal Galois representation. A critical point of is a point such that , and is post-critically finite if the orbit of every critical point under is finite. Finite-index criterion. The index of in is finite if and only if one of the following holds: (1) is post-critically finite; (2) the two critical points and satisfy for some ; (3) is periodic under ; or (4) there is a non-trivial Möbius transformation fixing such that . This gives a proposed classification of when the arboreal Galois image has finite index; the supplied text does not state whether the criterion has been proved or remains open.
References
Primary source
Andrea Ferraguti, “The set of stable primes for polynomial sequences with large Galois group”, arXiv:1704.02204 (2017).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1402.6018.
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