The positive-characteristic intersection-of-orbits conjecture for polynomials
Let be a field of characteristic , and let be polynomials of degrees larger than . Suppose that there exist such that is infinite. A polynomial is additive if it satisfies , and a polynomial is linearly conjugate to if it has the form for a linear polynomial .
Intersection-of-orbits conjecture. At least one of the following holds: (1) there exist such that ; or (2) there exist linear polynomials and additive polynomials such that
and there exists such that
This conjecture modifies the common-iterate conclusion known over characteristic zero to account for positive-characteristic counterexamples involving additive polynomials. Its full generality remains open, and no counterexamples are known.
References
Primary source
Simone Coccia, Dragos Ghioca, Jungin Lee and Gyeonghyeon Nam, “Intersection of orbits for polynomials in characteristic p”, arXiv:2408.06937 (2024).
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