Dynamical generalization of Siegel's theorem for integral points

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Let KK be a number field with ring of integers oK\mathfrak{o}_K, let φ\varphi be the dynamical system under consideration, and let PoK1\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathfrak{o}_K} be the projective line over oK\mathfrak{o}_K. For points α,βPoK1(K)\alpha,\beta\in\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathfrak{o}_K}(\overline{K}), say that α\alpha is integral relative to β\beta if the Zariski closure of α\alpha does not meet the Zariski closure of β\beta in PoK1\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathfrak{o}_K}. A point is preperiodic for φ\varphi if its forward orbit under φ\varphi is finite, and nonpreperiodic otherwise.

Dynamical Siegel conjecture. For any nonpreperiodic point βPoK1(K)\beta\in\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathfrak{o}_K}(\overline{K}), there are at most finitely many preperiodic points of φ\varphi in PoK1(K)\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathfrak{o}_K}(\overline{K}) that are integral relative to β\beta.

This is proposed as a dynamical generalization of Siegel's theorem for integral points. It is motivated by extending the paper's equidistribution results from periodic points and backward orbits to nonrepeating sequences of Galois orbits of preperiodic points; the supplied text does not give a resolution.

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Lucien Szpiro and Thomas J. Tucker, “Equidistribution and generalized Mahler measures”, arXiv:math/0510404 (2007).

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