Silverman–Morton strong uniform boundedness conjecture

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Let D≥1D\ge1, N≥1N\ge1, and d≥2d\ge2. For a number field K/QK/\mathbb Q, write [K:Q][K:\mathbb Q] for its degree, and let End⁡dN(K)\operatorname{End}_d^N(K) be the degree-dd endomorphisms of PN\mathbb P^N defined over KK. For f∈End⁡dN(K)f\in\operatorname{End}_d^N(K), let PrePer⁡(f)\operatorname{PrePer}(f) be its set of preperiodic points. Silverman–Morton strong uniform boundedness conjecture. There is a constant C3(D,N,d)C_3(D,N,d) such that, for every number field K/QK/\mathbb Q with [K:Q]≤D[K:\mathbb Q]\le D and every f∈End⁡dN(K)f\in\operatorname{End}_d^N(K),

#(PrePer⁡(f)∩PN(K))≤C3(D,N,d).\#\bigl(\operatorname{PrePer}(f)\cap\mathbb P^N(K)\bigr)\le C_3(D,N,d).

This is the expected uniform bound for rational preperiodic points in bounded-degree number fields. The source notes implications for torsion points on abelian varieties and special cases involving twists, but does not give a resolution of the conjecture.

References

Primary source

John R. Doyle and Joseph H. Silverman, “Moduli Spaces for Dynamical Systems with Portraits”, arXiv:1812.09936 (2018).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1804.00700.

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