Jones's index conjecture for quadratic rational maps
Jones's index conjecture for quadratic rational maps
Let be a global field, let have degree two, and let be the infinite rooted binary tree of preimages of a root under . Write for the image of the associated arboreal Galois representation. Jones's conjecture. One has
if and only if at least one of the following holds: is postcritically finite; the two critical points and satisfy for some ; the root is periodic under ; or a nontrivial Möbius transformation commuting with fixes . This gives criteria for when the arboreal image has infinite index in the full automorphism group; the supplied text does not indicate whether the conjecture has been resolved.
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Jamie Juul, Holly Krieger, Nicole Looper, Michelle Manes, Bianca Thompson and Laura Walton, “Arboreal representations for rational maps with few critical points”, arXiv:1804.06053 (2018).
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