Morton–Vivaldi irreducibility conjecture for quadratic delta factors

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Let fc(z)=z2+cf_c(z)=z^2+c. For positive integers m,nm,n with m∣nm\mid n, define the delta factors Δn,m\Delta_{n,m} by

Δn,m(c)≔Res⁡x(Φn/mcyc(x),δm(x,c))(m<n)\Delta_{n,m}(c)\coloneqq \operatorname{Res}_x\bigl(\Phi^{\mathrm{cyc}}_{n/m}(x),\delta_m(x,c)\bigr) \quad (m<n)

and, when m=nm=n, by

δn(1,c)=Δn,n(c)∏m∣n, m≠nΔn,m(c).\delta_n(1,c)=\Delta_{n,n}(c)\prod_{m\mid n,\,m\neq n}\Delta_{n,m}(c).

Here Φkcyc\Phi^{\mathrm{cyc}}_k is the kk-th cyclotomic polynomial, and the roots of Δn,m\Delta_{n,m} are the parabolic parameters of fcf_c associated with the corresponding periods and multipliers. Morton–Vivaldi irreducibility conjecture. For positive integers m,nm,n with m∣nm\mid n, every polynomial Δn,m\Delta_{n,m} is irreducible over Q\mathbb{Q}. Morton and Vivaldi proposed this as a number-theoretic property of parabolic parameters for the quadratic family. The conjecture is cited as an open problem, although the paper establishes irreducibility results for particular cases.

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Junnosuke Koizumi, Yuya Murakami, Kaoru Sano and Kohei Takehira, “Irreducibility of polynomials defining parabolic parameters of period 3”, arXiv:2408.04850 (2025).

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