Odoni's conjecture on surjective arboreal representations
Let be a Hilbertian field of characteristic , and let . For a polynomial , write for the set of -th preimages of , and let denote the -fold wreath product of with its natural action on the rooted -ary tree of height . Odoni's conjecture. There exists a polynomial of degree such that
for every ; equivalently, the associated arboreal representation is surjective. The conjecture is false for general Hilbertian fields of characteristic , 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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