Odoni's conjecture on surjective arboreal representations

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Let KK be a Hilbertian field of characteristic 00, and let n≥2n\geq 2. For a polynomial f∈K[x]f\in K[x], write f−k(0)f^{-k}(0) for the set of kk-th preimages of 00, and let [Sn]k[S_n]^k denote the kk-fold wreath product of SnS_n with its natural action on the rooted nn-ary tree of height kk. Odoni's conjecture. There exists a polynomial f(x)∈K[x]f(x)\in K[x] of degree nn such that

Gal⁡(K(f−k(0))/K)≃[Sn]k\operatorname{Gal}\left(K\left(f^{-k}(0)\right)/K\right)\simeq [S_n]^k

for every k≥1k\geq 1; equivalently, the associated arboreal representation ρf,∞\rho_{f,\infty} is surjective. The conjecture is false for general Hilbertian fields of characteristic 00, although it motivates positive results for suitable fields.

References

Primary source

Hrishabh Mishra and Anwesh Ray, “Counting number fields whose Galois group is a wreath product of symmetric groups”, arXiv:2306.15411 (2023).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1803.01987, arXiv:1802.09074, arXiv:1402.6018.

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