Flynn–Poonen–Schaefer conjecture on rational periods of quadratic polynomials
Flynn–Poonen–Schaefer conjecture on rational periods of quadratic polynomials
Let , and let be a quadratic polynomial with . A rational point has exact period if its orbit under iteration of returns to itself for the first time after exactly iterations.
Flynn–Poonen–Schaefer conjecture. There is no quadratic polynomial with a rational point of exact period .
This is a special case of the uniform boundedness conjecture for and . The claim concerns the possible exact periods of rational points and remains open as stated.
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Primary source
Brian Kintu, “Counting the number of 1_m-preperiodic O_K-points of a discrete dynamical system with applications from arithmetic statistics, VII”, arXiv:2606.14468 (2026).
Additional references
7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2511.00322, arXiv:2505.24565, arXiv:2206.12154, arXiv:1903.08865, arXiv:1711.06345, arXiv:0811.3225.
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