Non-abelian arboreal Galois groups associated to PCF rational maps

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Main Authors: Leung, Chifan, Petsche, Clayton
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author Leung, Chifan
Petsche, Clayton
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Petsche, Clayton
contents We prove that arboreal Galois extensions of number fields are never abelian for post-critically finite rational maps and non-preperiodic base points. For polynomials, this establishes a new class of known cases of a conjecture of Andrews-Petsche. Together with a result of Ferraguti-Ostafe-Zannier, this result implies that counterexamples to the conjecture, if they exist, are sparse. We also prove an auxiliary result on places of periodic reduction for rational maps, which may be of independent interest.
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spellingShingle Non-abelian arboreal Galois groups associated to PCF rational maps
Leung, Chifan
Petsche, Clayton
Number Theory
37P05 37P15 11S82 11R32
We prove that arboreal Galois extensions of number fields are never abelian for post-critically finite rational maps and non-preperiodic base points. For polynomials, this establishes a new class of known cases of a conjecture of Andrews-Petsche. Together with a result of Ferraguti-Ostafe-Zannier, this result implies that counterexamples to the conjecture, if they exist, are sparse. We also prove an auxiliary result on places of periodic reduction for rational maps, which may be of independent interest.
title Non-abelian arboreal Galois groups associated to PCF rational maps
topic Number Theory
37P05 37P15 11S82 11R32
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17415