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Let f be a degree d polynomial defined over the nonarchimedean field C_p, normalized so f is monic and f(0)=0. We say f is post-critically bounded, or PCB, if all of its critical points have bounded orbit under iteration of f. It is known that if p is greater than or equal to d and f is PCB, then all critical points of f have p-adic absolute value less than or equal to 1. We give a similar result for primes between d/2 and d. We also explore a one-parameter family of cubic polynomials over the 2-adic numbers to illustrate that the p-adic Mandelbrot set can be quite complicated when p is less than d, in contrast with the simple and well-understood p > d case.
A rational function of degree at least two with coefficients in an algebraically closed field is post-critically finite (PCF) if all of its critical points have finite forward orbit under iteration. We show that the collection of PCF rational functions is a set of bounded height in the moduli space of rational functions over the complex numbers, once the well-understood family known as flexible Lattes maps is excluded. As a consequence, there are only finitely many conjugacy classes of non-Lattes PCF rational maps of a given degree defined over any given number field. The key ingredient of the proof is a non-archimedean version of Fatous classical result that every attracting cycle of a rational function over the complex numbers attracts a critical point.
We study the radius of convergence of a differential equation on a smooth Berkovich curve over a non-archimedean complete valued field of characteristic 0. Several properties of this function are known: F. Baldassarri proved that it is continuous and the authors showed that it factorizes by the retraction through a locally finite graph. Here, assuming that the curve has no boundary or that the differential equation is overconvergent, we provide a shorter proof of both results by using potential theory on Berkovich curves.
We explicitly compute the adjoint L-function of those L-packets of representations of the group GSp(4) over a p-adic field of characteristic zero that contain non-supercuspidal representations. As an application we verify a conjecture of Gross-Prasad and Rallis in this case. The conjecture states that the adjoint L-function has a pole at s=1 if and only if the L-packet contains a generic representation.
Let $n, k$ and $a$ be positive integers. The Stirling numbers of the first kind, denoted by $s(n,k)$, count the number of permutations of $n$ elements with $k$ disjoint cycles. Let $p$ be a prime. In recent years, Lengyel, Komatsu and Young, Leonetti and Sanna, Adelberg, Hong and Qiu made some progress in the study of the $p$-adic valuations of $s(n,k)$. In this paper, by using Washingtons congruence on the generalized harmonic number and the $n$-th Bernoulli number $B_n$ and the properties of $m$-th Stirling numbers of the first kind obtained recently by the authors, we arrive at an exact expression or a lower bound of $v_p(s(ap, k))$ with $a$ and $k$ being integers such that $1le ale p-1$ and $1le kle ap$. This infers that for any regular prime $pge 7$ and for arbitrary integers $a$ and $k$ with $5le ale p-1$ and $a-2le kle ap-1$, one has $v_p(H(ap-1,k))<-frac{log{(ap-1)}}{2log p}$ with $H(ap-1, k)$ being the $k$-th elementary symmetric function of $1, frac{1}{2}, ..., frac{1}{ap-1}$. This gives a partial support to a conjecture of Leonetti and Sanna raised in 2017. We also present results on $v_p(s(ap^n,ap^n-k))$ from which one can derive that under certain condition, for any prime $pge 5$, any odd number $kge 3$ and any sufficiently large integer $n$, if $(a,p)=1$, then $v_p(s(ap^{n+1},ap^{n+1}-))=v_p(s(ap^n,ap^n-k))+2$. It confirms partially Lengyels conjecture proposed in 2015.
A variant of Brauers induction method is developed. It is shown that quartic p-adic forms with at least 9127 variables have non-trivial zeros, for every p. For odd p considerably fewer variables are needed. There are also subsidiary new results concerning quintic forms, and systems of forms.