A dynamical Mordell-Lang property on the disk

Wang, Ming-Xi

doi:10.1090/tran/6775

A dynamical Mordell-Lang property on the disk
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Abstract:

We prove that two finite endomorphisms of the unit disk with degree at least two have orbits with infinite intersections if and only if they have a common iterate.

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