Reduction and Iterate Decomposition Stability
Speaker:
Trevor Hyde, University of Michigan
Date and Time:
Monday, July 25, 2016 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Let $f, u$ be non-constant rational functions over algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 with $\deg{f}$ at least 2. We consider reducibility of the sequence of curves $C_n : f^n(x) = u(y)$. Our main result is that there exists a constant $b$ depending only on $\deg(u)$ such that if $C_m$ is irreducible for some $m \geq b$, then $C_n$ is irreducible for all $n\geq 0$.