Preperiodic points and zero sets of commuting formal power series

Let pp be a prime, let d1d\geq 1, and write X=(x1,,xd)X=(x_1,\ldots,x_d). Let Preper(u)\operatorname{Preper}(u) denote the preperiodic points of uu, and let Λ(f)\Lambda(f) denote the zero set of ff. Preperiodic-zero-set conjecture. If u,fZp[[X]]du,f\in\mathbb{Z}_p[[X]]^d are respectively invertible and noninvertible power series without constant term, satisfy

uf=fu,u\circ f=f\circ u,

and uu and all its iterates have finitely many fixed points, then

Preper(u)=Λ(f).\operatorname{Preper}(u)=\Lambda(f).

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.

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Ramla Abdellatif, Mabud Ali Sarkar and Absos Ali Shaikh, “Unlikely intersection in higher-dimensional formal groups”, arXiv:2306.01759 (2026).

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