Doyle's quadratic-polynomial preperiodic-point bound over quadratic fields

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Let K/QK/\mathbb{Q} be a quadratic field, let f∈K[z]f\in K[z] be a quadratic polynomial, and let PrePer⁡(f,K)\operatorname{PrePer}(f,K) denote its set of KK-rational preperiodic points. Doyle's conjecture.

#PrePer⁡(f,K)≤15.\#\operatorname{PrePer}(f,K)\leq15.

Computational investigations found the same bound in extensive searches, but the conjecture remains unproved in general.

References

Primary source

Brian Kintu, “Counting the number of n-periodic Z_p-and F_p[t]-points of a discrete dynamical system with applications from arithmetic statistics, VI”, arXiv:2511.00322 (2026).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2508.16393, arXiv:2505.24565, arXiv:2503.11393.

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