Milnor's Galois-orbit conjecture for unicritical preperiodic parameters
Milnor's Galois-orbit conjecture for unicritical preperiodic parameters
For , consider the unicritical polynomials
where and is the unique finite critical point. For integers and , consider the values of for which is strictly -preperiodic under .
Milnor's Galois-orbit conjecture. These values of form one Galois orbit under the action of the absolute Galois group of .
This conjecture concerns the arithmetic structure of unicritical parameter spaces. The paper proves it for and odd prime degree, using the irreducibility result for the corresponding moduli-space locus; the stated general case remains open.
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Primary source
Niladri Patra, “On irreducibility of prefixed algebraic sets in moduli spaces of prime degree polynomials”, arXiv:2305.04778 (2026).
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