Non-emptiness conjecture for fields with persistently irreducible polynomial iterates

For a field KK, let KNd,nK\in\mathcal{N}_{d,n}^{\infty} mean that there exists a degree-dd polynomial over KK whose first nn iterates, and all further iterates, remain irreducible. Non-emptiness conjecture. For each d,n2d,n\geq 2, the set Nd,n\mathcal{N}_{d,n}^{\infty} is non-empty. This predicts the existence of fields supporting persistently irreducible polynomial iteration in every pair of degrees and iteration lengths; the surrounding results establish several cases, while the general assertion remains open.

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Peter Illig, Rafe Jones, Eli Orvis, Yukihiko Segawa and Nick Spinale, “Newly reducible polynomial iterates”, arXiv:2008.01222 (2020).

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