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arxiv: 1611.04115 · v1 · pith:QORA5GTKnew · submitted 2016-11-13 · 🧮 math.NT · math.DS

Greatest common divisors of iterates of polynomials

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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 \[ \gcd(a^n - 1, b^n - 1) \mid h\] 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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