Milnor's Galois-orbit conjecture for unicritical preperiodic parameters

For d2d\geq 2, consider the unicritical polynomials

fc(X)=Xd+c,f_c(X)=X^d+c,

where cCc\in\mathbb{C} and 00 is the unique finite critical point. For integers k0k\geq 0 and n>0n>0, consider the values of cc for which 00 is strictly (k,n)(k,n)-preperiodic under fcf_c.

Milnor's Galois-orbit conjecture. These values of cc form one Galois orbit under the action of the absolute Galois group of Q\mathbb{Q}.

This conjecture concerns the arithmetic structure of unicritical parameter spaces. The paper proves it for n=1n=1 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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