Conjecture for iterated irreducibility over global function and number fields

Let KK be a finite extension of Q\mathbb{Q} or Fp(t)\mathbb{F}_p(t), where pp is prime. For integers d2d\geq 2, define KNd,nK\in\mathcal{N}_{d,n}^{\infty} to mean that KK admits the relevant persistently irreducible degree-dd polynomial iteration property. Global-field iterates conjecture. Then

KN2,3K\in\mathcal{N}_{2,3}^{\infty}

and

KNd,2for every d2.K\in\mathcal{N}_{d,2}^{\infty}\quad\text{for every }d\geq 2.

The conjecture isolates uniform persistent irreducibility claims for finite extensions of rational number fields and rational function fields; the paper's results motivate these cases, but their general validity is not established in the supplied text.

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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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