Preperiodic points and zero sets of commuting formal power series
Let be a prime, let , and write . Let denote the preperiodic points of , and let denote the zero set of . Preperiodic-zero-set conjecture. If are respectively invertible and noninvertible power series without constant term, satisfy
and and all its iterates have finitely many fixed points, then
This generalizes the preceding two-dimensional result and the analogous one-variable results. The paper identifies the difficulty in proving the higher-dimensional assertion as the lack of sufficiently effective control of Newton copolygons, so the conjecture remains open.
References
Primary source
Ramla Abdellatif, Mabud Ali Sarkar and Absos Ali Shaikh, “Unlikely intersection in higher-dimensional formal groups”, arXiv:2306.01759 (2026).
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