Preperiodic points and unlikely intersections

Details Preperiodic points and unlikely intersections Preperiodic points and unlikely intersections

2009-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/0911.0918v3

Mathematics

Dynamical Systems

26 pages. v3: Final version to appear in Duke Math. J

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In this article, we combine complex-analytic and arithmetic tools to study the preperiodic points of one-dimensional complex dynamical systems. We show that for any fixed complex numbers a and b, and any integer d at least 2, the set of complex numbers c for which both a and b are preperiodic for z^d+c is infinite if and only if a^d = b^d. This provides an affirmative answer to a question of Zannier, which itself arose from questions of Masser concerning simultaneous torsion sections on families of elliptic curves. Using similar techniques, we prove that if two complex rational functions f and g have infinitely many preperiodic points in common, then they must have the same Julia set. This generalizes a theorem of Mimar, who established the same result assuming that f and g are defined over an algebraic extension of the rationals. The main arithmetic ingredient in the proofs is an adelic equidistribution theorem for preperiodic points over number fields and function fields, with non-archimedean Berkovich spaces playing an essential role.

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