Andrews–Petsche conjecture on abelian arboreal Galois images

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Let KK be a number field, let KabK^{\mathrm{ab}} be its maximal abelian extension, let f:P1→P1f:{\mathbb P}^1\to{\mathbb P}^1 be a polynomial map of degree d≥2d\geq2 defined over KK, and let α∈P1(K)\alpha\in{\mathbb P}^1(K) be non-exceptional for ff. Andrews–Petsche conjecture. If Gf,αG_{f,\alpha} is abelian, then either (f,α)(f,\alpha) is PGL2(Kab)\mathrm{PGL}_2(K^{\mathrm{ab}})-conjugate to (xd,ζ)(x^d,\zeta) for a root of unity ζ\zeta, or it is PGL2(Kab)\mathrm{PGL}_2(K^{\mathrm{ab}})-conjugate to (±Td(x),ζ+1ζ)(\pm T_d(x),\zeta+\frac{1}{\zeta}) for a root of unity ζ\zeta. This conjecture classifies the expected polynomial cases with abelian arboreal image; the supplied text attributes it to Andrews–Petsche and also records the stated formulation with Ferraguti–Ostafe–Zannier.

References

Primary source

Chifan Leung and Clayton Petsche, “The Minkowski dimension of the image of an arboreal Galois representation”, arXiv:2512.18825 (2026).

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2508.03308, arXiv:2412.03313, arXiv:2407.17415, arXiv:2303.04783, arXiv:2211.13598, arXiv:2203.10034.

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