Period classification conjecture for quadratic Hénon maps over the rationals

Consider the family of polynomial automorphisms of A2\mathbb{A}^2 over Q\mathbb{Q} given by

f(x,y)=(y,y2+c+x),f(x,y)=(y,y^2+c+x),

where cQc\in\mathbb{Q}, and let NN be the period of a rational periodic point.

Period classification conjecture. Over Q\mathbb{Q}, the map has no point of period NN except possibly when

N{1,2,3,4,6,8}.N\in\{1,2,3,4,6,8\}.

The source identifies this as one of two readily falsifiable conjectures and notes that infinite families of examples would make the asserted list sharp. Its resolution is left open.

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Pierre Berger, Eric Bedford, Fabrizio Bianchi, Xavier Buff, Sylvain Crovisier, Tien-Cuong Dinh, Romain Dujardin, Charles Favre, Tanya Firsova, Patrick Ingram, Yutaka Ishii, Liviana Palmisano, Enrique Pujals, Jasmin Raissy, Sonja Štimac and Gabriel Vigny, “Hénon maps: a list of open problems”, arXiv:2312.03907 (2023).

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