Periods of rational maps modulo primes

Details Periods of rational maps modulo primes Periods of rational maps modulo primes

2011-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2816v1

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Algebraic Geometry

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Let $K$ be a number field, let $\phi \in K(t)$ be a rational map of degree at least 2, and let $\alpha, \beta \in K$. We show that if $\alpha$ is not in the forward orbit of $\beta$, then there is a positive proportion of primes ${\mathfrak p}$ of $K$ such that $\alpha \mod {\mathfrak p}$ is not in the forward orbit of $\beta \mod {\mathfrak p}$. Moreover, we show that a similar result holds for several maps and several points. We also present heuristic and numerical evidence that a higher dimensional analog of this result is unlikely to be true if we replace $\alpha$ by a hypersurface, such as the ramification locus of a morphism $\phi : {\mathbb P}^{n} \to {\mathbb P}^{n}$.

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