Generic period-two conjecture for quadratic Hénon maps over the rationals

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For δ,c∈Q\delta,c\in\mathbb{Q}, consider the polynomial automorphism

f(x,y)=(y,y2+c−δx).f(x,y)=(y,y^2+c-\delta x).

A rational periodic point means a point in Q2\mathbb{Q}^2 that is periodic under ff.

Generic period-two conjecture. For all but finitely many δ∈Q\delta\in\mathbb{Q}, the Q\mathbb{Q}-rational periodic points of every such map, with c∈Qc\in\mathbb{Q}, have period dividing 22.

The source presents this as a readily falsifiable conjecture and notes that infinite families of examples would make it sharp. The claim remains 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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