Average Zsigmondy sets, dynamical Galois groups, and the Kodaira-Spencer map
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Abstract:
Let $K$ be a global function field and let $\phi (x)\in K[x]$. For all wandering basepoints $b\in K$, we show that there is a bound on the size of the elements of the dynamical Zsigmondy set $\mathcal {Z}(\phi ,b)$ that depends only on $\phi$, the poles of the $b$, and $K$. Moreover, when we order $b\in \mathcal {O}_{K,S}$ by height, we show that $\mathcal {Z}(\phi ,b)$ is empty on average. As an application, we prove that the inverse limit of the Galois groups of iterates of $\phi (x)=x^d+f$ is a finite index subgroup of an iterated wreath product of cyclic groups. In particular, since our methods translate to rational function fields in characteristic zero, we establish the inverse Galois problem for these groups via specialization.References
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Additional Information
- Wade Hindes
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016-4309
- MR Author ID: 1022776
- Email: whindes@gc.cuny.edu
- Received by editor(s): May 11, 2016
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 18, 2016, and November 15, 2016
- Published electronically: March 20, 2018
- © Copyright 2018 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 370 (2018), 6391-6410
- MSC (2010): Primary 37P15, 11R32; Secondary 11B37, 14G05, 11G99
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/7125
- MathSciNet review: 3814334