Periodic Morton–Silverman conjecture over the rational numbers

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Let φ:P1(Q)→P1(Q)\varphi:\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{Q})\to\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{Q}) be a morphism of degree dd, and let Per⁡(φ,P1(Q))\operatorname{Per}(\varphi,\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{Q})) denote its set of periodic points. Fix an integer d≥2d\geq 2. Periodic Morton–Silverman conjecture. There exists a constant C′=C′(d)C'=C'(d) such that, for every such morphism,

#Per⁡(φ,P1(Q))≤C′(d).\#\operatorname{Per}(\varphi,\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{Q}))\leq C'(d).

This is the (D,N)=(1,1)(D,N)=(1,1) periodic specialization of uniform boundedness; unlike the corresponding finiteness statement for an individual morphism, uniformity over all degree-dd morphisms remains open.

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Brian Kintu, “Counting the number of n-periodic integral points of a discrete dynamical system with applications from arithmetic statistics, IV”, arXiv:2507.08601 (2026).

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