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Greatest common divisors of iterates of polynomials
Published 13 Nov 2016 in math.NT and math.DS | (1611.04115v1)
Abstract: Following work of Bugeaud, Corvaja, and Zannier for integers, Ailon and Rudnick prove that for any multiplicatively independent polynomials, $a, b \in {\mathbb C}[x]$, there is a polynomial $h$ such that for all $n$, we have [ \gcd(an - 1, bn - 1) \mid h] We prove a compositional analog of this theorem, namely that if $f, g \in {\mathbb C}[x]$ are nonconstant compositionally independent polynomials and $c(x) \in {\mathbb C}[x]$, then there are at most finitely many $\lambda$ with the property that there is an $n$ such that $(x - \lambda)$ divides $\gcd(f{\circ n}(x) - c(x), g{\circ n}(x) - c(x))$.
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